Yellow-backed Tanager (Hemithraupis flavicollis) [XC550477]
by Dante Buzzetti from Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Ecol\u00f3gica de Murici, Murici, Alagoas, Brazil (call)
Yellow-backed Tanager (Hemithraupis flavicollis) [XC285365]
by Glauco Alves Pereira from S\u00e3o Vicente Ferrer, S\u00e3o Vicente Ferrer, Pernambuco, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
Molecular data indicate that this genus and Chrysothlypis are closely related and probably sister-taxa, and that Heterospingus also is closely related to them. Some subspecies of present species only weakly defined and possibly not worthy of retention, e.g. insignis perhaps not distinct from melanoxantha. A thorough review required.
The following 11 subspecies are recognised:
ornata Nelson, 1912 - Pacific slope from extreme eastern Panama (eastern Darién) south to northern Chocó, in Colombia.
albigularis (Sclater, PL, 1855) - Northern Colombia from R Sinú east to middle Magdalena Valley in Antioquia and Santander.
peruana Bonaparte, 1851 - Eastern of Andes in Colombia (from Meta) south through eastern Ecuador to Peru northern of R Marañón and R Amazon (Amazonas and Loreto).
aurigularis Cherrie, 1916 - South-eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela (southern of R Orinoco), and northern Brazil (in upper R Uaupés and R Negro).
hellmayri von Berlepsch, 1912 - South-eastern Venezuela (eastern Bolívar) and western Guyana (Merumé Mts).
flavicollis (Vieillot, 1818) - Suriname, French Guiana and north-eastern Brazil (northern of R Amazon).
obidensis Parkes & Humphrey, 1963 - Northern bank of lower R Amazon in Brazil.
sororia Zimmer, JT, 1947 - Northern and eastern Peru southern of R Marañón.
centralis (Hellmayr, 1907) - South-eastern Peru, northern and Central Bolivia and SC Brazil (eastern to northern Mato Grosso).
melanoxantha (Lichtenstein, MHK, 1823) - Coastal eastern Brazil (Pernambuco and Bahia).
insignis (Sclater, PL, 1856) - South-eastern Brazil (Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet