See text Poospiza is a genus of finch-like birds in the tanager family Thraupidae that are found in both the South American lowlands and the Andes mountains.

[1] The genus Poospiza was introduced in 1847 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis.

[3] The type species was designated as the black-and-rufous warbling finch by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.

[4][5] A molecular phylogenetic study of the Tanager family published in 2014 found that Poospiza and many other genera were polyphyletic.

At the same time several species formerly assigned to Poospiza were moved to Microspingus, Poospizopsis and Castanozoster.