See text Sphenopsis is a genus of warbler-like birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

They are found in highland forest of South America.

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Hemispingus was polyphyletic and as part of the subsequent rearrangement, the genus Sphenopsis was resurrected for these four species.

[1][2][3] The genus had been introduced in 1862 by the English zoologist Philip Sclater with the type species as Sphenopsis ignobilis, a taxon that is now treated as a subspecies of the oleaginous hemispingus.

[5] The four species in the genus are:[3] This article about a tanager is a stub.