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Pheucticus
Rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cardinalidae
Genus:	Pheucticus Reichenbach, 1850
Type species
Pitylus aureoventris d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837
Species
See text

Pheucticus is a genus of grosbeaks containing six species.

The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850. The type species was subsequently designated as the black-backed grosbeak.

Species

The name of the genus is from the Ancient Greek φευκτικός - pheuktikós "shy" or "inclined to avoid".

Genus Pheucticus – Reichenbach, 1850 – six species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Yellow grosbeak	Pheucticus chrysopeplus (Vigors, 1832)	Pacific slope of Mexico from central Sonora to northwestern Oaxaca, and in southern Chiapas and Guatemala	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-thighed grosbeak	Pheucticus tibialis Lawrence, 1867	Costa Rica and western Panama.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Golden grosbeak	Pheucticus chrysogaster (Lesson, 1832)	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-backed grosbeak	Pheucticus aureoventris (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) Five subspecies P. a. meridensis Riley, 1905 P. a. uropygialis Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1871 P. a. crissalis Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1877 P. a. terminalis Chapman, 1919 P. a. aureoventris (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)	Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Rose-breasted grosbeak Male Female	Pheucticus ludovicianus (Linnaeus, 1766)	east of the Rocky Mountains, to winter from central-southern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to Peru and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-headed grosbeak Male Female	Pheucticus melanocephalus (Swainson, 1827)	US Great Plains and from southwestern Canada to the mountains of Mexico.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

1. "ITIS Report:Pheucticus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Cardinals, grosbeaks and (tanager) allies". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
3. Reichenbach, Ludwig (1850). Avium Systema Naturale. Das natürliche System der Vögel. Vol. 1. Dresden: Expedition der Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. Plate 78.
4. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 217.
5. Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 5 May 2018.

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