Short-billed ant panties

Short-billed ant panties
Systematics
Subordination : Screeching Birds (Tyranni) Family : Ant birds (Thamnophilidae) Subfamily : Thamnophilinae Tribe : Formicivorini Genre : Myrmotherula Type : Short-billed ant panties
Scientific name
Myrmotherula obscura
JT Zimmer , 1932

The short-billed ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula obscura ) belong to the genus Myrmotherula within the ant bird family (Thamnophilidae) .

Most authors regard it as a subspecies of the western white-throated ant hatchet ( Myrmotherula ignota ) and as M. i. called obscura . For more see under Western white-throated ant hatchers.

The species occurs in eastern Colombia to northeastern Peru and northwestern Brazil.

The Latin additional species comes from the Latin obscurus 'dark' .

The species is considered to be monotypical .

literature

• J. Zimmer: Studies of Peruvian birds. 3, The genus Myrmotherula in Peru, with notes on extralimital forms. Part 1. In: American Museum novitates No. 523, p. 2, 1957 American Museum of Natural History

 Zimmer, JT, 1932

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short-beaked ant panties , in Avibase - The World Bird Database. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
2. ^ JA Jobling: A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. Oxford University Press. 1991, ISBN 0-19-854634-3 .