Tacarcuna Bush-Tanager

About the Tacarcuna Bush-Tanager

The Tacarcuna chlorospingus (Chlorospingus tacarcunae) or Tacarcuna bush tanager is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is found in Colombia and Panama. The Tacarcuna chlorospingus has a complicated taxonomic history. It was formally described in 1924 with its current binomial Chlorospingus tacarcunae. During the next two decades different authors treated it as a subspecies what are now the yellow-throated chlorospingus (C. flavigularis) or the common chlorospingus (C. flavopectus). From about 1976 it has been again treated as a full species. During this period the Chlorospingus species were members of the family Thraupidae, the "true" tanagers, though their position within the family were uncertain. Based on studies published in 2002, 2003, and 2007, beginning in 2010 taxonomic systems transferred Chlorospingus to its present sparrow family. The Chlorospingus species were originally called "bush tanagers" or "bush-tanagers". Beginning in 2013 systems began changing the English name of the members of the genus to "chlorospingus" because they were no longer considered tanagers.

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