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The antbird family Thamnophilidae used to be considered a subfamily, Thamnophilinae, within a larger family Formicariidae that included antthrushes and antpittas.Formerly, that larger family was known as the "antbird family" and the Thamnophilinae were "typical antbirds".
A black drongo in a typical anting posture. Anting is a maintenance behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin.The bird may pick up the insects in its bill and rub them on the body (active anting), or the bird may lie in an area of high density of the insects and perform dust bathing-like movements (passive anting).
Myrmotherula is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. These are all small antbirds, measuring 9–11.5 cm (3.5–4.5 in). The genus was erected by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1858. [2] The type species is the pygmy antwren. [3] The genus currently contains the following species: [4]
White-plumed antbird Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thamnophilidae Genus: Pithys Species: P. albifrons Binomial name Pithys albifrons (Linnaeus, 1766) Synonyms Pipra albifrons Linnaeus, 1766 The white-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons) is a small species of ...
Common scale-backed antbird Male, Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador Female, Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thamnophilidae Genus: Willisornis Species: W. poecilinotus Binomial name Willisornis poecilinotus (Cabanis, 1847) Synonyms ...
Bare-crowned antbird Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thamnophilidae Genus: Gymnocichla P.L. Sclater, 1858 Species: G. nudiceps Binomial name Gymnocichla nudiceps (Cassin, 1850) The bare-crowned antbird (Gymnocichla nudiceps) is a species of bird in subfamily ...
However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treats P. e. cassini and P. e. maculifer as a separate species, the short-tailed antbird Poliocrania maculifer, and retains the English name chestnut-backed antbird for the other three subspecies. [9] [10] This article follows the one-species, five-subspecies model.
The jet antbird was described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1858 and given its current binomial name Cercomacra nigricans. [3] A 2014 study confirmed what had been earlier suggested, that the jet antbird and the Mato Grosso (C. melanaria), Rio Branco (C. carbonaria), and Bananal (C. ferdinandi) antbirds form a clade within genus Cercomacra.