The blue-winged warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera) belongs to the family Parulidae under the order Passeriformes.
The Parulidae is the family of New World warblers or wood-warblers. The family Parulidae was first described by Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 – December 7, 1978), an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist, in the year 1947.
The family Parulidae comprises seventeen genera, including genus Vermivora. The genus Vermivora comprises three species, viz., Vermivora bachmanii, Vermivora cyanoptera and Vermivora chrysoptera.
The genus Vermivora was first introduced by William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist and entomologist, in the year 1827.
The species Vermivora cyanoptera was first introduced by Storrs Lovejoy Olson, an American biologist and ornithologist and James Lauritz Reveal, a U.S. botanist, in the year 2009. The warbler species Vermivora cyanoptera is monotypic.
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