Oneillornis Explained

Oneillornis is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae. The species are native to the Amazon rainforest of South America.

The genus contains two species:[1]

These two species were at one time included in the genus Gymnopithys. They were moved to this newly erected genus based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014. The type species is the lunulated antbird.[2]

These species are specialist ant-followers that depend on swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2018 . Antbirds . World Bird List Version 8.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 30 January 2018 .
  2. Isler . M.L. . Bravo . G.A. . Brumfield . R.T. . 2014 . Systematics of the obligate ant-following clade of antbirds (Aves:Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) . Wilson Journal of Ornithology . 126 . 4 . 635–648 . 10.1676/13-199.1 . 83806772 .
  3. Zimmer . K. . Isler . M.L. . 2018 . 2003 . Typical Antbirds (Thamnophilidae) . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 10.2173/bow.thamno3.01 . 216492154 . 17 February 2018 . subscription.

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