Banded antbird

The banded antbird (Dichrozona cincta) – sometimes called banded antwren despite not being close to the true antwrens – is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is the only member of the genus Dichrozona. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Banded antbird
A bird, around half the size of the hand holding it, with a pale neck and chest, and gold-silver bands of feathers across its dark back,
A banded antbird at Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Dichrozona
Ridgway, 1888
Species:
D. cincta
Binomial name
Dichrozona cincta
(Pelzeln, 1868)
Synonyms[2]
  • Cyphorhinus (Microcerculus) cinctus Pelzeln, 1868[3]
  • Hypocnemis stellata Sclater & Salvin, 1880[4]
  • Dichrozona zononota Ridgway, 1888[5]
  • Dichrozona zonota Riker & Chapman, 1891[6]
  • Dichrozona cincta Hellmayr, 1903[7]
  • Dichrozona cinctus Chapman, 1917[8]
  • Microcerculus cinctus Ihering, 1905[9]

Taxonomy

The banded antbird was described by the Austrian ornithologist August von Pelzeln in 1868 and given the scientific name Cyphorhinus (Microcerculus) cinctus.[3] The present genus Dichrozona was erected by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1888.[5][10]

Subspecies

There are three subspecies:[11]

  • Dichrozona cincta cincta (Pelzeln, 1868) – east Colombia, south Venezuela and northwest Brazil
  • Dichrozona cincta stellata (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1880) – east Ecuador and west Brazil
  • Dichrozona cincta zononota Ridgway, 1888 – west central Brazil and north Bolivia

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Dichrozona cincta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22701543A93835350. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22701543A93835350.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. Osgood, Wilfred H. (1924). Catalogue of Birds of the Americas. Part III. Pteroptochidae — Conopophagidae — Formicariidae. Field Museum of Natural History. Zoological Series. Vol. 13. Chicago. pp. 165–166.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Pelzeln, von August (1868). Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens (in German). Vol. 1. Wien: A. Pichler's Witwe & Sohn. pp. 47, 65–66.
  4. Sclater, P. L.; Salvin, O. (1880). "On new birds collected by Mr. C. Buckley in Eastern Ecuador". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 48 (2): 160. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1880.tb06545.x.
  5. Ridgway, Robert (1887). "Descriptions of new species and genera of birds from the Lower Amazon". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 10 (660): 516–528 [524]. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.660.516.
  6. Riker, Clarence B.; Chapman, Frank M. (1891). "A list of birds observed at Santarem, Brazil (Continued)". The Auk. 8 (1): 29.
  7. Hellmayr, C. E. (1903). "Bemerkungen über neotropische Vögel". Journal für Ornithologie. 51 (4): 536–537. doi:10.1007/BF02361577. S2CID 9754426.
  8. Chapman, Frank M. (1917). The distribution of bird-life in Colombia: a contribution to a biological survey of South America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 36. New York. p. 386. hdl:2246/1243.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. von Ihering, H. (1904). "O Rio Juruá". Revista do Museu Paulista. 6: 431–432.
  10. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 200.
  11. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 February 2018.

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