Pionopsitta, Bonaparte, 1854

Smith, Brian Tilston, Thom, Gregory & Joseph, Leo, 2024, Revised Evolutionary And Taxonomic Synthesis For Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) Guided By Phylogenomic Analysis, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2024 (468), pp. 1-87 : 32-33

Pionopsitta

The sole species in this genus, Pionopsitta pileata , is midsized and mostly green apart from its red coronal and facial plumage. Although it ranges into some drier forest and woodland habitats in Argentina and Paraguay, it is essentially an Atlantic Forest endemic of southeastern Brazil. Our data support the now well-established retention of this species in monotypic Pionopsitta of which it is the type species, and the removal of the other species that had been placed in Pionopsitta into Pyrilia (see Ribas et al., 2005;

Eberhard and Bermingham, 2005). The distinctiveness of Pionopsitta was further reflected by its deep split from the rest of Androglossini at 20.2 Mya (13.3–24.1).