Spot-winged antshrike

The spot-winged antshrike (Pygiptila stellaris) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is monotypic within the genus Pygiptila.[2] It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[1]

Spot-winged antshrike
Illustration in Avium Species Novae by Johann Baptist von Spix
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Pygiptila
Sclater, PL, 1858
Species:
P. stellaris
Binomial name
Pygiptila stellaris
(von Spix, 1825)

The spot-winged antshrike was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1825 and given the binomial name Thamnophilus stellaris.[3] The current genus Pygiptila was erected by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1858.[4]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Pygiptila stellaris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. "ITIS Report: Pygiptila". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  3. von Spix, Johann Baptist (1825). Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX (in Latin). Volume 2. Monachii (Munich): Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni. p. 27, Plate 36 fig. 2.
  4. Sclater, Philip L. (1858). "Synopsis of the American ant-birds (Formicariidae)". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 26: 202–224 [220].
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