Species profile
Melozone taciturni
Melozone taciturni
Quick answer
taciturni species group The six species of this group are characterized as having both sexes with strongly developed hypopharyngeal sclerites, the females with lightly spiculate posterior margin of subgenital plate, and the males with a slender strongly arched sternite II (Figs. 19, 25, 27, 32, 38) and genital sac sclerite tapered posteriorly, with dark medioposterior line (Figs. 21, 24, 29, 33, 35).
- Scientific name
- Melozone taciturni
- Family
- Passerellidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Melozone
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Related species in Passerellidae
- Abert's towhee (Melozone aberti)
- American Tree Sparrow (Spizelloides arborea)
- Antioquia Brushfinch (Atlapetes blancae)
- Apurimac Brushfinch (Atlapetes forbesi)
- Ashy-throated Chlorospingus (Chlorospingus canigularis)
- Bachman's Sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis)
- Baird's Junco (Junco bairdi)
- Bairds Sparrow (Centronyx bairdii)