A genus-level classification of the family Thraupidae (Class Aves: Order Passeriformes) Author Burns, Kevin J. Author Unitt, Philip Author Mason, Nicholas A. text Zootaxa 2016 4088 3 329 354 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.2 fcf25fb0-17d2-4892-bd42-2dffdb549763 1175-5326 266311 201C6F0F-D061-427D-96A2-50879D46D32D 1. Recognize a monospecific Rhopospina Cabanis, 1851 (type = Fringilla fruticeti Kittlitz, 1833 , currently Phrygilus fruticeti ), for Phrygilus fruticeti ( Fig. 1 ). Because Rhopospina is feminine in gender and Phrygilus is masculine, the subspecies Phrygilus fruticeti peruvianus Zimmer, 1924 , becomes Rhopospina fruticeti peruviana . Comments. Phrygilus is polyphyletic, and the type species of Phrygilus ( P. g ay i ) is distantly related to several species of Phrygilus (Burns et al . 2014, Fig. 4 ). Thus, a new genus-level taxonomy is needed for P. fruticeti as well as several other species of Phrygilus (see recommendations 2, 22, and 24 below).