Aphelocoma, Cabanis, 1851

Venkatraman, Madhvi X., Deraad, Devon A., Tsai, Whitney L. E., Zarza, Eugenia, Zellmer, Amanda J., Maley, James M. & Mccormack, John E., 2019, Cloudy with a chance of speciation: integrative taxonomy reveals extraordinary divergence within a Mesoamerican cloud forest bird, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126, pp. 1-15 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1093/biolinnean/bly156
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7817907
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038DF434-FF87-FF8E-90B8-FA8650466779
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphelocoma
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APHELOCOMA View in CoL View at ENA CONCOLOR CASSIN, 1848

Type. An unsexed specimen, ANSP: Bird:3039 labelled S. America, later determined probably to have originated near Xalapa, Veracruz ( Phillips, 1986). This species is brighter blue than A. u. oaxacae and A. u. guerrerensis and has a larger wing and tail than A. u. oaxacae. It is found in cloud forests from Hidalgo south to Veracruz, Mexico ( Pitelka 1946).