See text Asemospiza is a genus of South American birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Tiaris was polyphyletic.

[1] In the resulting reorganization to create monophyletic genera, these two species were assigned to a new genus Asemospiza with the sooty grassquit as the type species.

[2][3] These two species are in the subfamily Coerebinae and form a sister clade to the Darwin's finches.

[1] The species in the genus are:[4] This article about a tanager is a stub.