Hylophylax Explained

Hylophylax is a genus of bird in the family Thamnophilidae.

The genus Hylophylax was erected by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1909 with the spotted antbird as the type species.^[1] It contains three species:^[2]

• Spotted antbird, Hylophylax naevioides
• Spot-backed antbird, Hylophylax naevius
• Dot-backed antbird, Hylophylax punctulatus

The common scale-backed antbird was formerly included in Hylophylax. A molecular study found that it was not closely related to the other species and it was therefore moved to a newly erected genus Willisornis.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Ridgway . Robert . Robert Ridgway . 1909 . New genera, species and subspecies of Formicariidae, Furnariidae, and Dendrocolaptidae . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . 22 . 69–74 [70] .
2. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2018 . Antbirds . World Bird List Version 8.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 4 February 2018 .
3. Agne . C.E.Q. . Pacheco . J.F. . 2007 . A homonymy in Thamnophilidae: a new name for Dichropogon Chubb . Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia . 15 . 3 . 484–485 . 2018-02-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180206191924/http://www4.museu-goeldi.br/revistabrornito/revista/index.php/BJO/article/view/3121/pdf_530 . 2018-02-06 . dead .
4. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop286.htm Revive the genus Dichropogon
5. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop340.htm Reassign Dichropogon to Willisornis