3, see list Loriotus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

The three species now assigned to Loriotus were traditionally placed in the genus Tachyphonus.

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

[1] In the subsequent reorganization the genus Loriotus was resurrected for these three species.

[1][2][3] The genus had been introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki with the flame-crested tanager as the type species.