Caracas brushfinch
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passerellidae
Genus:	Arremon
Species:	A. phaeopleurus
Binomial name
Arremon phaeopleurus (Sclater, PL, 1856)
Synonyms
Arremon torquatus phaeopleurus Buarremon phaeopleurus

The Caracas brushfinch (Arremon phaeopleurus) is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae.

It lives in the undergrowth of humid forest, especially near edges, at altitudes of 300 to 1,200 metres (980 to 3,940 ft) in the Venezuelan Coastal Range.

The Caracas brushfinch was often treated as a subspecies of the stripe-headed brushfinch (A. torquatus), but was determined a distinct species on the basis of differences in vocalization, plumage, and genetics.^[2] SACC split the group in 2010.

• South American Classification Committee (September 2010). "Proposal (#468) to South American Classification Committee – Species limits in Arremon torquatus". Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2012.