Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)

Black-striped Sparrow (Arremonops conirostris) - HBW 16, p. 572

French: Tohi ligné German: Panamaammer Spanish: Cerquero Negrilistado

Taxonomy: Arremon conirostris Bonaparte, 1850, Brazil; error = Colombia.
Relationships of genus not well understood; molecular evidence suggests that it is close to Rhynchospiza, Peucaea and some Ammodramus. Sometimes considered conspecific with A. chloronotus, with which virtually sympatric in NC Honduras, but differs significantly in juvenile plumage, size and vocalizations. Seven subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

richmondi Ridgway, 1898 - tropical zone from E Honduras S to W Panama.
viridicatus Wetmore, 1957 - Coiba I, off Veraguas, in S Panama.
striaticeps (Lafresnaye, 1853) - C & E Panama (both slopes) and Pacific slope of Colombia S to W Ecuador.

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richmondi Ridgway, 1898 - tropical zone from E Honduras S to W Panama.
viridicatus Wetmore, 1957 - Coiba I, off Veraguas, in S Panama.
striaticeps (Lafresnaye, 1853) - C & E Panama (both slopes) and Pacific slope of Colombia S to W Ecuador.
conirostris (Bonaparte, 1850) - Caribbean coast of Colombia from Bolívar (upper Sinú Valley) E to foothills of Santa Marta Mts, S in Magdalena Valley (except uppermost parts), also E slopes of E Andes in Arauca and Boyaca; also N & W Venezuela (Falcón and Lara E to Sucre, S to SW Táchira, Apure, Guárica and N Bolívar) and extreme N Brazil (R Branco region).
inexpectatus Chapman, 1914 - arid tropical and subtropical zones of upper Magdalena Valley, in Colombia.
umbrinus Todd, 1923 - E Colombia (Norte de Santader) and W Venezuela (S & W of L Maracaibo).
pastazae Krabbe & Stejskal, 2008 - E Ecuador (R Pastaza, in Pastaza).