See text Ixothraupis is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

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

[1] In the rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the genus Ixothraupis was resurrected.

It had been introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1851 with the spotted tanager as the type species.

[2][3] The name combines the Ancient Greek ixos meaning "mistletoe" with "thraupis", an unknown small bird.