''Oreothlypis'' is a genus of New World warbler. Most members of this genus for formerly classified in the genus ''

Vermivora ''Vermivora'' is a genus of New World warblers. Species Three species are accepted in the genus,IOC World Bird LisFamily Parulidae one of these species may be extinct: Several additional species were formerly included in ''Vermivora ...

''. However, the species then in ''Vermivora'' were more closely related to the flame-throated warbler and crescent-chested warbler, then classed in ''

Parula ''Parula'' was formerly a small genus of New World warblers which breed in North America, North and South America. In 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1758, Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus classified the northern parula as a titmouse, tit, ''Parus ameri ...

'', than to other species of ''Vermivora''. Initially, the new genus '' Leiothlypis'' was proposed for these species by Sangster in 2008, but the

American Ornithologists' Union The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States. The society was formed in October 2016 by the merger of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and the Cooper Ornithological Society. Its ...

opted to classify them along with the flame-throated and crescent-chested warblers in the existing genus ''Oreothlypis'', though accepted the change in 2019.

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Bird genera Parulidae Meso-American montane bird species Taxa named by Robert Ridgway {{Parulidae-stub