The blue-fronted parrotlet (''Touit dilectissimus'') is also known as the red-winged parrotlet (but see below). It is a parrot in N. South America from E. Panama down the west coastal Andes to Peru, with a second population around and south of Lake Maracaibo. It is 15 cm, green with a short tail, blue forehead with narrow band of red under eye, red shoulders and leading edge of underwing, and the remaining underwing coverts yellow. Edges of tail also yellowish. Usually found in humid, wet, and cloud forest from 800-1600m, it is occasionally spotted as low as 100m. Little known, as it is hard to see in the canopy where it usually lives and is most often seen while flying over the canopy. The

red-fronted parrotlet The red-fronted parrotlet (''Touit costaricensis'') is a parrot in Central America in Costa Rica and Panama. It is 15 cm, green with a short tail, red forehead, lores, and under eye, red shoulders and leading edge of underwing, and the remai ...

(''T. costaricensis'') is, especially in older sources like ITIS, included in the blue-fronted parrotlet. Most modern authors consider them two species. Strictly speaking, the term "red-winged parrotlet" refers to the ''T. costaricensis - dilectissimus''

clade A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, ...

References

Juniper & Parr (1998) ''Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World''; .

External links

World Parrot Trust
Parrot Encyclopedia - Species Profile {{Taxonbar, from=Q1270783 Touit Birds described in 1871 Taxa named by Philip Sclater Taxa named by Osbert Salvin