The purpletufts (''Iodopleura'') are a

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of birds in the family

Tityridae Tityridae is family of suboscine passerine birds found in forest and woodland in the Neotropics. The 45 species in this family were formerly spread over the families Tyrannidae, Pipridae and Cotingidae (''see Taxonomy''). As yet, no widely acce ...

. It has traditionally been placed in the

cotinga The cotingas are a large family, Cotingidae, of suboscine passerine birds found in Central America and tropical South America. Cotingas are birds of forests or forest edges, that are primary frugivorous. They all have broad bills with hooked tip ...

family, but evidence strongly suggest it is better placed in Tityridae,Adopt the Family Tityridae
- South American Classification Committee (2007) where now placed by SACC. These relatively small, short-tailed birds are found in the

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of forests in tropical

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. Their name is a reference to the purple feather tufts on the flanks of the male, but these are often not visible when the wings are held closed, and females lack them entirely.

Species

References

Taxa named by René Lesson Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Tityridae-stub