White-eyed stipplethroat

The white-eyed stipplethroat or white-eyed antwren (Epinecrophylla leucophthalma) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Myrmotherula. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

White-eyed antwren
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Epinecrophylla
Species:
E. leucophthalma
Binomial name
Epinecrophylla leucophthalma
(Pelzeln, 1868)
Subspecies

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The white-eyed stipplethroat was described by the Austrian ornithologist August von Pelzeln in 1868 and given the binomial name Formicivora leucophthalma.[2]

There are four subspecies:[3]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Epinecrophylla leucophthalma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. von Pelzeln, August (1868). "Formicivora leucophthalma Pelzeln. N. 806". Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens : Resultate von Johann Natterers Reisen in den Jahren 1817 bis 1835 (in German and Latin). Volume 2. Wien: A. Pichler's Witwe & Sohn. pp. 83, 155.
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  4. Bond, James (1950). "Notes on Peruvian Formicariidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 102: 10–11. JSTOR 4064401.
  5. Todd, Clyde (1927). "New Gnateaters and Antbirds from Tropical America, with a Revision of the Genus Myrmeciza and its Allies". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 40: 157.
  6. Todd, Clyde (1927). "New Gnateaters and Antbirds from Tropical America, with a Revision of the Genus Myrmeciza and its Allies". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 40: 156.

Further reading
  • Isler, M., D. Lacerda, P. Isler, S. Hackett, K. Rosenberg, and R. Brumfield (2006). Epinecrophylla, a new genus of antwrens (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119(4): 522-527


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