| Black-eared hemispingus | |
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| In Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador | |
| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Sphenopsis |
| Species: | S. melanotis |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphenopsis melanotis (Sclater, PL, 1855) | |
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The black-eared hemispingus (Sphenopsis melanotis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
It is found in humid highland forest in the Andes of western Venezuela, through to western Bolivia. It includes several distinctive subspecies, and two of these are sometimes considered as separate species: The western hemispingus (S. ochraceus) of the west Andean slope in southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador, and the Piura hemispingus (S. piurae) of the west Andean slope in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru.
References
- BirdLife International (2017). "Sphenopsis melanotis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T103823252A119480940. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103823252A119480940.en. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Sphenopsis melanotis | |
| Hemispingus melanotis | |
| Chlorospingus melanotis | |
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