Biology:Pithys
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Short description: Genus of birds
| Pithys | |
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| White-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Pithys Vieillot, 1818 |
| Type species | |
| Pithys leucops[1] = Pithys albifrons Vieillot, 1818
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Pithys is a genus of insectivorous passerine binds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.
The species in this genus are specialist ant-followers that depend on swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.[2]
The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818.[3] The type species is the white-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons).[4] It contains two species:[5]
Species
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Pithys albifrons | White-plumed antbird | Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana |
| Pithys castaneus | White-masked antbird | Peru. |
References
- ↑ "Thamnophilidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=108.
- ↑ Zimmer, K.; Isler, M.L. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. et al.. eds. "Typical Antbirds (Thamnophilidae)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (Lynx Edicions). doi:10.2173/bow.thamno3.01. https://www.hbw.com/node/52291. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ↑ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1818) (in French). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc.. 24. Paris: Deterville. p. 112. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45177356.
- ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed (1951). Check-list of Birds of the World. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 245. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480582.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2017). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/antbirds/. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1193253 entry
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