Hesperiphona

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Hesperiphona
Male evening grosbeak
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Hesperiphona
Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Fringilla vespertina
Cooper, W, 1825

Hesperiphona is a genus in the finch family Fringillidae.

The genus was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the evening grosbeak as the type species.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek hesperos meaning "evening" and phōnē meaning "sound" or "cry".[2]

Species

The genus contains two species:[3]

Genus Hesperiphona – Cooper, W, 1825 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Evening grosbeak

Hesperiphona vespertina
(W. Cooper, 1825)

Three subspecies
  • H. v. vespertina (Cooper, W, 1825) – central, east Canada and northeast USA
  • H. v. brooksi Grinnell, 1917 – west Canada and northwest USA
  • H. v. montana Ridgway, 1874 – southwest USA to southwest Mexico
Canada and the western mountainous areas of the United States and Mexico
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



Hooded grosbeak

Hesperiphona abeillei
(Lesson, R, 1839) 		Central America, principally in Mexico and Guatemala.
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 




References

  1. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). "Sur plusieurs genres nouveaux de Passereaux". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 31: 423–424 [424].
  2. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, United Kingdom: Christopher Helm. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Finches, euphonias". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 January 2021.


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