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Lanio
White-throated shrike-tanager, Lanio leucothorax
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Lanio Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tangara fulva Boddaert, 1783
Species
Lanio aurantius Lanio fulvus Lanio leucothorax Lanio versicolor

Lanio is the genus of shrike-tanagers in the family Thraupidae.

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) as the type species. The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.

Species list

The genus contains four species:

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Lanio fulvus	Fulvous shrike-tanager	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
	Lanio versicolor	White-winged shrike-tanager	Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru
	Lanio aurantius	Black-throated shrike-tanager	Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
	Lanio leucothorax	White-throated shrike-tanager	Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

References

1. Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 40.
2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 285.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 October 2019.

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