Silvicultrix Explained

Silvicultrix is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was erected by the American ornithologist Wesley E. Lanyon in 1986 with the yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema) as the type species.^[1]

Species

The genus contains five species:^[2]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Crowned chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix frontalis	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
	Kalinowski's chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix spodionota	Bolivia and Peru
		Silvicultrix pulchella	Yungas of Peru and Bolivia.
		Silvicultrix diadema	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
		Silvicultrix jelskii	Peru and southern Ecuador.

These species were formerly included in the genus Ochthoeca.

Notes and References

1. Book: Lanyon, Wesley E. . 1986 . A phylogeny of the thirty-three genera in the Empidonax assemblage of tyrant flycatchers . American Museum Novitates; Number 2846 . New York, USA . American Museum of Natural History . 27–28 . 2246/3581 .
2. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2017 . Tyrant flycatchers . World Bird List Version 7.3 . International Ornithologists' Union . 12 January 2018 .