Synonyms

• Hypolophus Cabanis & Heine Sr., 1859 Mus.Hein. p. 16
• Sakesphoroides Grantsau, 2010
• Sakesphores [variation]​
• Saskephorus [variation]

Primary references

• Chubb, C. 1918. Descriptions of new Genera and a new Subspecies of South American Birds. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)2 no.7: 122–124. BHL Reference page.  Original description p. 123 BHL

Additional references

• Lopes, L.E.; Gonzaga, L.P. 2012. Clinal pattern of morphological variation in Sakesphorus luctuosus (Lichtenstein, 1823), with comments on the enigmatic Sakesphorus hagmanni Miranda-Ribeiro, 1927 (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Zootaxa 3569: 41–54. Preview Full article viewReference page. 

• Brumfield, R. T. & Edwards, S.V. (2007). Evolution into and out of the Andes: A Bayesian analysis of historical diversification in Thamnophilus antshrikes. Evolution 61: 346–361. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00039.x Full article viewReference page. 

• Bravo, G.A., Whitney, B.M., Belmonte-Lopes, R., Borschein, M.R., Aristizábal, N., Beco, R., Battilana, J., Naka, L.N., Aleixo, A., Pie, M.R., Silveira, L.F., Derryberry, E.P. & Brumfield, R.T. 2021. Phylogenomic analyses reveal non-monophyly of the antbird genera Herpsilochmus and Sakesphorus (Thamnophilidae), with description of a new genus for Herpsilochmus sellowi. Ornithology 138(3): 1–16 DOI: 10.1093/ornithology/ukab025 Reference page.