Tanagers (Thraupidae)

Lacrimose Mountain-tanager (Anisognathus lacrymosus) - HBW 16, p. 203

French: Tangara larmoyant German: Tränenbergtangare Spanish: Tangara Lacrimosa

Taxonomy: Tachyphonus lacrymosus du Bus de Gisignies, 1846, Maraynioc, Peru.
Formerly placed with A. melanogenys and A. igniventris in a separate genus, Poecilothraupis. May form a superspecies with A. melanogenys, and in the past treated as conspecific. Nine subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

pallididorsalis Phelps, Sr & Phelps, Jr, 1952 - Perijá Mts on N Colombia–W Venezuela border.
melanops (Berlepsch, 1893) - Andes of W Venezuela (in Trujillo, Mérida and N Táchira).
tamae (Phelps, Sr & Gilliard, 1941) - Andes of W Venezuela (S Táchira) and adjacent E Andes of Colombia (Norte de Santander and Boyacá).

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pallididorsalis Phelps, Sr & Phelps, Jr, 1952 - Perijá Mts on N Colombia–W Venezuela border.
melanops (Berlepsch, 1893) - Andes of W Venezuela (in Trujillo, Mérida and N Táchira).
tamae (Phelps, Sr & Gilliard, 1941) - Andes of W Venezuela (S Táchira) and adjacent E Andes of Colombia (Norte de Santander and Boyacá).
olivaceiceps (Berlepsch, 1912) - Colombia at N end of W Andes (Antioquia) and in C Andes (S to Quindío and Tolima).
yariguierum Donegan & Avendaño, 2010 - Colombia on W slope of E Andes in Santander (Serranía de Yaraguíes).
intensus Meyer de Schauensee, 1951 - SW Colombia on E slope of W Andes (Valle and Cauca).
palpebrosus (Lafresnaye, 1847) - S Colombia (on both slopes in S Cauca and Nariño) and E slope of Ecuador (S to at least Morona-Santiago).
caerulescens (Taczanowski & Berlepsch, 1885) - E slope of Andes in Ecuador (from Loja, or possibly farther N) and N Peru (S to Cajamarca and N Amazonas).
lacrymosus (du Bus de Gisignies, 1846) - E slope in Peru from Amazonas (S of R Marañón) S to Junín, Ayacucho and N Cuzco).