The black-hooded tanager (Stilpnia whitelyi) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

The black-hooded tanager was formally described in 1884 by the English naturalists Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman based on a specimen that had been collected by Henry Whitely near Mount Roraima.

[1][2] The black-hooded tanager is now one of 15 species placed in the genus Stilpnia that was erected in 2016.

The black-hooded tanager was formerly considered as a subspecies of the black-headed tanager Stilpnia cyanoptera) but was separated as a distinct species based on the differences in plumage and vocalizations.