Silvicultrix

Silvicultrix
	Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant; (Silvicultrix diadema)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Silvicultrix; Lanyon, W, 1986
Type species
	Myiobius diadema; Hartlaub, 1843
Species
	see text

Silvicultrix is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was erected by the American ornithologist Wesley E. Lanyon in 1986 with the yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema) as the type species.[1]

The genus contains five species:[2]

Crowned chat-tyrant, Silvicultrix frontalis
Kalinowski's chat-tyrant, Silvicultrix spodionota
Golden-browed chat-tyrant Silvicultrix pulchella
Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant Silvicultrix diadema
Jelski's chat-tyrant Silvicultrix jelskii

These species were formerly included in the genus Ochthoeca.

References

Lanyon, Wesley E. (1986). A phylogeny of the thirty-three genera in the Empidonax assemblage of tyrant flycatchers. American Museum Novitates; Number 2846. New York, USA: American Museum of Natural History. pp. 27–28.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

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[1] Lanyon, Wesley E. (1986). A phylogeny of the thirty-three genera in the Empidonax assemblage of tyrant flycatchers. American Museum Novitates; Number 2846. New York, USA: American Museum of Natural History. pp. 27–28.

[ioc-2] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 January 2018.