Tanagers (Thraupidae)

White-vented Euphonia (Euphonia minuta) - HBW 16, p. 294

French: Organiste cul-blanc German: Weißbauchorganist Spanish: Eufonia Culiblanca

Taxonomy: E.[uphona] minuta Cabanis, 1848, Guyana.
Recent molecular-genetic analysis indicates that genus belongs in family Fringillidae. The two races are so similar that species may be better treated as monotypic. Two subspecies tentatively recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

humilis (Cabanis, 1861) - extreme SE Mexico (Palenque, in Chiapas) very locally E to C Guatemala and S Belize and N Honduras, and S on Caribbean slope from E Nicaragua to Panama, and on Pacific slope from SW Costa Rica E to Panama (Veraguas), N base of Andes in Colombia (E to C Magdalena Valley) and S on entire Pacific coast to NW Ecuador (to S Pichincha).
minuta Cabanis, 1848 - E base of Venezuelan Andes (in Táchira) and SE Colombia (from Meta and Vaupés) S through Ecuador and Peru to C Bolivia (Santa Cruz), and generally E across S & E Venezuela, the Guianas, and Amazonian Brazil (E to mouth of R Amazon, and S to S Amazonas and C Pará; once in E Mato Grosso).