White-winged Tanager (Piranga leucoptera) [XC732285]
by Jacob Wijpkema from Vallegrande (near Barrera), Vallegrande, Departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia (call, song)
White-winged Tanager (Piranga leucoptera) [XC261228]
by Edwin Calder\u00f3n from Pichincha: Mindo area, Ecuador (call, song, songs, calls)
Subspecies
Molecular-genetic evidence indicates that this genus forms a monophyletic group with Habia and Chlorothraupis, and that all three are more closely related to cardinals (Cardinalidae) than to true tanagers. This species and Red-headed Tanager (Piranga erythrocephala) have sometimes been placed in a separate genus, Spermagra, but recent DNA work does not support such treatment.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
leucoptera Trudeau, 1839 - Highlands of eastern Mexico (from Tamaulipas) south to Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
latifasciata Ridgway, 1887 - Highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama (east to Veraguas).
venezuelae Zimmer, JT, 1947 - Andes of Colombia (except Nariņo), and highlands of Venezuela (northern and south of R Orinoco) and adjacent Brazil (on Uei-tepui).
ardens (Tschudi, 1844) - Western slope of Andes in south-western Colombia (Nariņo) south to south-western Ecuador; eastern slope from Ecuador and Peru south to Bolivia (to Cochabamba).