Sporophila [americana or murallae] (Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater)

Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater

Sporophila [americana or murallae] (= Sporophila americana) (Gmelin, JF 1789)

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Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Thraupidae
Genus:
   Sporophila
Scientific:
  Sporophila americana

Original description

Citation:
(Gmelin, JF 1789)

Reference:
Systema Naturae ed. 13, vol. 1, part 2 1 pt2 p.863

Protonym:
Loxia americana

Type locality:
some part of America ; restricted to Cayenne by Hellmayr, 1904, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, 54, p. 532.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10286#page/363/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
0E5131A2389676D4

Avibase ID:
avibase-0E5131A2

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/0E5131A2

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 563073

English:
Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater
French:
Sporophile à ailes blanches ou S. du Caqueta

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater ( Sporophila [americana or murallae])
Avilist 2025: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 00: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
Clements, version 2023: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
Clements, version 2024: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
Clements, version 2025: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
eBird version 2023: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
eBird version 2024: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
eBird version 2025: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.1: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.1: Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (24/10/2003): Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (14/09/2005): Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (16/07/2006): Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (24/07/2022): Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (28/09/2023): Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (27/07/2024): Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (31/07/2025): Wing-barred Seedeater ( Sporophila americana) [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

This taxon is a subspecies of Sporophila [americana or corvina]

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Bulgarian: Полубеловрата тъпоклюна танагра
Catalan: menjagrà alabarrat
Czech: kněžík páskovaný
Danish: Broget Klerkefinke
German: Wechselpfäffchen
English: Hick's Variable-Seedeater, Southern Variable-Seedeater, Variable Seedeater, Wing-barred or Caqueta Seedeater, Wing-barred Seedeater
[ENAV]: Wing-barred Seedeater
English, HBW: Wing-barred/Caqueta Seedeater
English (IOC): Wing-barred Seedeater
English (United States): Wing-barred Seedeater
Esperanto: striflugila semtangaro
Spanish: Corbatita, Espiguero variable
Spanish (Ecuador): Espiguero variable
Spanish (Spain): Semillero aliblanco
Spanish (Mexico): semillero variable
Spanish (Nicaragua): Espiguero Variable
Spanish (Paraguay): Corbatita
Spanish (Venezuela): Espiguero Variable
Finnish: sepelsirkkunen
French: Sporophile à ailes blanches, Sporophile à ailes blanches ou S. du Caqueta, Sporophile variable
Guarani: Guyra juru tu'î
Croatian: bjelovrati sjemenar
Hungarian: amerikai törpepinty
Italian: Beccasemi alibarrate
Japanese (romaji): kawarihimeuso
Japanese: カワリヒメウソ
Scientific: Loxia americana, Loxia pectoralis, Sporophila [americana or murallae], Sporophila americana, Sporophila americana americana
Lithuanian: Amerikinė kikilinė starta
Dutch: Bont Dikbekje
Norwegian: Krattfrøeter
Polish: ziarnojadek plamoskrzydly, Ziarnojadek plamoskrzydły
Portuguese: coleira, coleira-do-norte, coleiro-do-brejo-do-Amazonas, gola, Gola o coleira-do-norte, patativa, patativa-de-costas-negras, pintada
Portuguese (Brazil): coleira, coleira-do-norte, coleiro-do-brejo-do-Amazonas, Coleiro-do-norte, gola, patativa, patativa-de-costas-negras, pintada
Portuguese (Portugal): sementeiro-d'asa-barrada
Russian: Вьюрковая изменчивая овсянка, Изменчивая вьюрковая овсянка
Slovak: knažík golierikatý
Serbian: Američka popić zeba
Swedish: Brokfrösprv
Turkish: Ak Kanatlı Tohumcul
Ukrainian: Зерноїд плямистокрилий
Chinese: 斑翅食籽雀
Chinese (Traditional): 紋翅食籽雀