• Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Passerida: Emberizoidea
• Distribution: North and Central America
• Number of extant genera: 31
• Number of extant species: 108

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Icteridae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. 

[Notes: (1) The phylogenetic arrangement is based on Powell et al. 2014 and Barker et al. 2015. (2) The subfamily assignment follows Remsen et al. 2016]

References

Barker FK, Burns KJ, Klicka J, Lanyon SM, and Lovette IJ (2013), Going to extremes: contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of New World passerine birds, Syst. Biol. 62, 298-320. (abstract) [note: treating Emberizoidea: ]

Barker FK, Burns KJ, Klicka J, Lanyon SM, and Lovette IJ (2015), New insights into New World biogeography: An integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies, Auk 132, 333-348. (free pdf)

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Powell AFLA, Barker FK, Lanyon SM, Burns KJ, Klicka J, and Lovette IJ (2014), A comprehensive species-level molecular phylogeny of the New World blackbirds (Icteridae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 71, 94-112. (journal abstract) (author pdf) 

Price JJ, and Lanyon SM (2002), A robust phylogeny of the oropendolas: Polyphyly revealed by mitochondrial sequence data, Auk 119, 335-348. (free pdf) [note: genus Psarocolius]

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