Sipia Explained

Sipia is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.

The genus contains four species:^[1]

• Dull-mantled antbird (Sipia laemosticta)
• Magdalena antbird (Sipia palliata)
• Esmeraldas antbird (Sipia nigricauda)
• Stub-tailed antbird (Sipia berlepschi)

These species were formerly placed in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.^[2] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera these four species were moved to the resurrected genus Sipia which had been introduced by the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1924.^{[1] [3]}

References

• Web site: South American Classification Committee . South American Classification Committee . Proposal (#628) to South American Classification Committee – Reassign species currently placed in Myrmeciza into 12 genera . February 22, 2016 . January 28, 2018.

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. . 2013 . Taxonomic revision of Myrmeciza (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) into 12 genera based on phylogenetic, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data . Zootaxa . 3717 . 4 . 469–497 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3717.4.3 . 26176119 .
3. Book: Hellmayr, Carl Eduard . Carl Eduard Hellmayr . 1924 . Catalogue of Birds of the Americas and the Adjacent Islands . Field Museum Natural History Publications. Zoological Series . 13 . 3 . 224 . Chicago . Field Museum of Natural History .