Saltator melanoleucus Vieillot, 1817 Psaris habia Lesson, 1830 The red-billed pied tanager (Lamprospiza melanoleuca) is a species of bird in the family Mitrospingidae.

[2][3] Placed in family Thraupidae, the "true" tanagers, for over two centuries, the International Ornithological Committee reclassified this species to Mitrospingidae in 2018.

[4] In 1823, English ornithologist John Latham called it the divaricated tanager, having seen a specimen in Lord Stanley's collection.

[6] English ornithologist George Robert Gray followed on by placing in the genus Tityra as T. habia in his Genera of Birds.

[8] Finally English zoologist Philip Sclater gave it its current name in 1856, synonymising the species descriptions to date.

The male's head and upper parts are glossy blue-black, its throat and chest black, and the rest of the underparts white.

[3] The red-billed pied tanager is found in the upper Amazon Basin from eastern and southeastern Peru and northern Bolivia east to central Brazil and north into the Guianas.