Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) [XC862592]
by id from Callej\u00f3n Seco (near Los Naranjos), Boquete, Provincia de Chiriqu\u00ed, Panama (call)
Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) [XC253886]
by Peter Boesman from Parque Nacional Montecristo, El Salvador (call)
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.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
bidentata (Swainson, 1827) - Extreme south-western USA (southern Arizona, western Texas), and western Mexico from Sonora and Chihuahua south to Guerrero and east to vicinity of Mexico City.
flammea Ridgway, 1887 - Western Mexico (Nayarit and Tres Marías Is).
sanguinolenta Lafresnaye, 1839 - Eastern Mexico (from Nuevo León and Tamaulipas) south to Guatemala, north-western Honduras and northern El Salvador.
citrea van Rossem, 1934 - Mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama.