Biology:Lunulated antbird

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Short description: Species of bird

Lunulated antbird
PithysLunulataSmit.jpg
Illustration of a female
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Oneillornis
Species:
O. lunulatus
Binomial name
Oneillornis lunulatus
(Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1873)
Oneillornis lunulatus map.svg
Synonyms

Gymnopithys lunulatus

The lunulated antbird (Oneillornis lunulatus) is a species of insectivorous bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

This species is a specialist ant-followers that relies on swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.[2]

The lunulated antbird was described and illustrated by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1873 and given the binomial name Pithys lunulatus.[3] The species was subsequently included in the genus Gymnopithys. It was moved to a newly erected genus Oneillornis based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014.[4] The species is monotypic.[5]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Oneillornis lunulatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22701879A93852818. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22701879A93852818.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22701879/93852818. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. Willis, Edwin O. (1968). "Studies of the behavior of Lunulated and Salvin's antbirds". Condor 70 (2): 128–148. doi:10.2307/1365956. https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v070n02/p0128-p0148.pdf. 
  3. Sclater, Philip L.; Salvin, Osbert (1873). "On the birds of Eastern Peru". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (2): 252–311 [276] Plate 26. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28504501. 
  4. 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. doi:10.1676/13-199.1. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/biosci_pubs/523. 
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/antbirds/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1262522 entry