Aimophila

Aimophila
	Rufous-crowned sparrow (Aimophila ruficeps)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passerellidae
Genus:	Aimophila; Swainson, 1837
Type species
	Pipilo rufescens; Swainson, 1827
Species
	See text

Aimophila is a genus of American sparrows. The derivation of the genus name is from aimos/αιμος "thicket" and phila/φιλα "loving".^[2]

Some species that were formerly classified in Aimophila are now considered to be in the genus Peucaea.^[3]

Species in taxonomic order

Genus **Aimophila** – Swainson, 1837 – three species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Rufous-crowned sparrow	Aimophila ruficeps (Cassin, 1852) Twelve subspecies A. r. ruficeps A. r. canescens A. r. obscura A. r. sanctorum A. r. sororia A. r. scottii A. r. rupicola A. r. simulans A. r. eremoeca A. r. fusca A. r. boucardi A. r. australis	southwestern United States and Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Oaxaca sparrow	Aimophila notosticta (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868)	Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Rusty sparrow	Aimophila rufescens (Swainson, 1827)	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

^ "Passerellidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
^ Holloway JE (2003). Dictionary of Birds of the United States: Scientific and Common Names. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-88192-600-0.
^ DaCosta, Jeffrey M.; Spellman, Garth M.; Escalante, Patricia; Klicka, John (1 March 2009). "A molecular systematic revision of two historically problematic songbird clades: Aimophila and Pipilo" (PDF). Journal of Avian Biology. 40 (2): 206–216. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04514.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 15 March 2013.