Theblue-capped tanager (Sporathraupis cyanocephala) is aspecies of bird in the tanager familyThraupidae. It was formerly placed in the genusThraupis but is now the only species in the genusSporathraupis.
The blue-capped tanager wasformally described in 1837 by the French naturalistsAlcide d'Orbigny andFrédéric de Lafresnaye from a specimen collected in theBolivian Yungas. They coined the binomial nameAglaia cyanocephala.[2][3] The species was usually placed in the genusThraupis but when amolecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that it was not closely related to other members ofThraupis, it was moved to the resurrected genusSporathraupis that had been erected in 1898 byRobert Ridgway with the blue-capped tanager as thetype species.[4][5][6] The genus nameSporathraupis combines theAncient Greekspora meaning "seed" withthraupis, the word for an unknown small bird. The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greekkuanos meaning "dark blue" with-kephalos meaning "-headed".[7]
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^Jobling, James A. (2010).The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 126, 363.ISBN978-1-4081-2501-4.
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