First Described (Guide)
(D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude grassland and shrubland, subtropical and tropical moist shrubland, subtropical and tropical dry grassland. From 1,000 - 3,000 m, occasionally up to 3,300 m.
Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis) [XC259877]
by John V. Moore from Pichincha: 2 km E of Calacal\u00ed, Ecuador (song)
Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis) [XC357862]
by Niels Krabbe from San Marcos, La Calera, Cundinamarca, Colombia (song)
Subspecies
Molecular data suggest that genus is part of a clade which includes Haplospiza, as well as Phrygilus unicolor and Phrygilus plebejus (but not other members of latter genus). Subspecies divide into two fairly well-defined groups: southern "analis group" (nominate, soderstomi, griseiventris), with large and obvious wing stripe, and northern "analoides group" (alpica, schistaceifrons, analoides, insignis), with wingstripe less extensive or entirely lacking.
Proposed subspecies subinsignis (described from Sandillani, near La Paz city, in Bolivia) is synonymized with nominate.
The following 7 subspecies are recognised:
alpica Bangs, 1902 - Santa Marta Mts, in northern Colombia.
schistaceifrons Chapman, 1915 - Central parts of central and eastern Andes of Colombia.
soderstromi Chapman, 1924 - Ecuador (western slope and inter-Andean valleys).
analoides (Lafresnaye, 1847) - Western slope of Andes of Peru (Piura south to Ayacucho).
griseiventris Chapman, 1919 - South-western Peru (Cusco south to Tacna).
insignis Zimmer, JT, 1930 - Eastern slope of Peruvian Andes (Cajamarca south to Ancash).
analis (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) - Extreme northern Chile (Arica-Parinacota), highland Bolivia (La Paz east to western Santa Cruz, south to Tarija), and north-western and east-central Argentina (Jujuy and Salta south to Mendoza and La Pampa, and highlands of Córdoba. Also Sierra de Ventana in south-western Buenos Aires).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet