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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Subsectio: Ornithodira
Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha
Cladus: Dinosauria
Ordo: Saurischia
Cladus: Eusaurischia
Cladus: Theropoda
Cladus: Neotheropoda
Infraclassis: Aves
Ordo: Passeriformes
Subordo: Tyranni
Infraordo: Tyrannides
Parvordo: Tyrannida

Familia: Tyrannidae
Genus: Lessonia
Species: L. oreas – L. rufa
Name

Lessonia Swainson, 1832

Typus: Alauda rufa Gmelin, 1789 = Lessonia rufa

Synonyms

Centrophanes Cabanis, 1845-46 FaunaPeruana(Tschudi) p.167
Centrites Cabanis, 1847 Arch.Naturgesch. p.256
Auchmalea Reichenbach, 1850 Av.Syst.Nat. pl. LIX


References

Swainson, W.J. Northern Zoology. Part II Aves. In: Swainson, W. & Richardson, J. 1831. Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. Part Second, The Birds. pp. 1-523. John Murray. London DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.39293 Original description p. 490 BHL Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Negritos
español: Negritos

Lessonia is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family, found near freshwater lakes and saline marshes.

The genus was erected by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1832 with the Austral negrito (Lessonia rufa) as the type species.[1][2] The genus name was chosen to honour the French Navy surgeon and naturalist René Lesson (1794–1849).[3]
Species

The genus contains two species:[4]

Male Female Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Andean Negrito (Lessonia oreas) on the ground, side view.jpg Andean Negrito (Lessonia oreas) (8077619521).jpg Lessonia oreas Andean negrito central Peru south into western Bolivia, down into north eastern Chile and northern Argentina
Lessonia rufa male 1.jpg Austral Negrito female RWD.jpg Lessonia rufa Austral negrito Argentina and Chile, migrating north as far as Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay

References

Swainson, William John; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America. Vol. Part 2. The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 490. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume did not appear until 1832.
Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 173.
Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Lessonia". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.

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