Taxonomic status of the Western Hemispingus Sphenopsis ochracea (Thraupidae) and a review of species limits in the genus Sphenopsis P. L. Sclater, 1861 Author Halley, Matthew R. text Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 2022 2022-06-03 142 2 209 223 http://dx.doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v142i2.2022.a5 journal article 306646 10.25226/bboc.v142i2.2022.a5 e1a4a226-a3e4-4bb8-a26c-b06c45e53422 2513-9894 12535806 F94D7878-8828-48D4-A402-080589626BE5
TABLE 1 Five alternative taxonomies of the genus Sphenopsis as presented in (from left to right) the present study; eBird/Clements checklist v.2021 (Clements et al. 2021); IOC world bird list v.12.1 (Gill et al. 2021); Howard & Moore v.4 (Dickinson & Christidis 2014); HBW/Birdlife International digital checklist v.6 (HBW & BirdLife International 2021). The South American Checklist Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) currently recognises two species (S. melanotis, S. frontalis) in line with eBird/ Clements and Howard & Moore. The ‘linearised’ taxonomic sequence used in this study (see Appendix) was based on Price-Waldman (2019), wherein S. melanotis (sensu lato, as treated by eBird/Clements and Howard & Moore) was reconstructed as paraphyletic. Taxa recognised at species rank within each taxonomy are shown in boldface. Taxa for which study skins were not personally examined in the present study are denoted thus (—).
Present studyeBird/ClementsIOCHoward & MooreHBW/Birdlife
S. melanotis melanotisS. m. melanotisS. m. melanotisS. m. melanotisS. m. melanotis
S. m. castaneicollisS. m. castaneicollisS. m. castaneicollisS. m. castaneicollisS. m. castaneicollis
S. frontalis frontalisS. f. frontalisS. f. frontalisS. f. frontalisS. f. frontalis
S. f. hanieliS. f. hanieliS. f. hanieliS. f. hanieliS. f. hanieli
—S. f. ignobilisS. f. ignobilisS. f. ignobilisS. f. ignobilis
—S. f. flavidorsalisS. f. flavidorsalisS. f. flavidorsalisS. f. flavidorsalis
—S. f. iterataS. f. iterataS. f. iterataS. f. iterata
S. piuraeS. m. piuraeS. p. piuraeS. m. piuraeS. p. piurae
S. ochraceaS. m. ochraceaS. ochraceaS. m. ochraceaS. ochracea
—S. m. berlepschiS. m. berlepschiS. m. berlepschiS. m. berlepschi
—S. m. macrophrysS. p. macrophrysS. m. macrophrysS. p. macrophrys