Automolus

Automolus
White-eyed foliage-gleaner (Automolus leucophthalmus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Genus:	Automolus Reichenbach, 1853
Type species
Sphenura sulphurascens White-eyed foliage-gleaner Lichtenstein, MHK, 1823

Automolus is a genus of bird in the ovenbird family Furnariidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Automolus was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the taxon Sphenura sulphurascens Lichtenstein, now treated as a subspecies of the white-eyed foliage-gleaner. ^{[1] [2]} The name is from the Ancient Greek automolos meaning "deserter". ^[3]

Species

The genus contains 11 species: ^[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Automolus rufipileatus	Chestnut-crowned foliage-gleaner	Amazonia
-	Automolus melanopezus	Brown-rumped foliage-gleaner	western Amazonia
	Automolus cervinigularis	Fawn-throated foliage-gleaner	Central America
-	Automolus ochrolaemus	Ochre-throated foliage-gleaner	Tumbes–Chocó–Magdalena and Amazonia
	Automolus exsertus	Chiriqui foliage-gleaner	southern Costa Rica and Panama
-	Automolus virgatus	Western woodhaunter	Nicaragua to Ecuador
-	Automolus subulatus	Eastern woodhaunter	Amazonia
	Automolus infuscatus	Olive-backed foliage-gleaner	Amazonia (north of Madeira River)
	Automolus paraensis	Para foliage-gleaner	Amazonia (south of Madeira River)
	Automolus lammi	Pernambuco foliage-gleaner	Pernambuco coastal forests
	Automolus leucophthalmus	White-eyed foliage-gleaner	southeastern Brazil, Paraguay and selva misionera

The tepui foliage-gleaner has been placed in this genus, but behavior, voice, and morphology all point to it belonging in Syndactyla , ^[5] and molecular data confirmed this hypothesis. ^[6]

The eastern woodhaunter was formerly placed in its own genus Hyloctistes but molecular evidence showed that it was nested in Automolus. ^[7] The ruddy foliage-gleaner and the Santa Marta foliage-gleaner, formerly placed in Automolus, are actually more closely related to Clibanornis foliage-gleaners. ^[7]

References

1. Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853). "Icones ad synopsin avium No. 10 Scansoriae A". Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (in German). Vol. 6. Dresden und Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. pp. 145–218 [146, 173–174].
2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 133.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 63. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
5. Zimmer, K. J., Robbins, M. B., & Kopuchiam, C. (2008). Taxonomy, vocalisations, syringeal morphology and natural history of Automolus roraimae (Furnariidae). Bulletin B.O.U. 128: 187–206.
6. Derryberry, Elizabeth P.; Claramunt, Santiago; Derryberry, Graham; Chesser, R. Terry; Cracraft, Joel; Aleixo, Alexandre; Pérez-Emán, Jorge; Remsen Jr., J. V.; Brumfield, Robb T. (2011). "Lineage diversification and morphological evolution in a large-scale continental radiation: the Neotropical ovenbirds and woodcreepers (Aves: Furnariidae)". Evolution. 65 (10): 2973–2986. Bibcode:2011Evolu..65.2973D. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01374.x . ISSN   0014-3820. PMID   21967436.
7. Claramunt, Santiago; Derryberry, Elizabeth P.; Cadena, Carlos Daniel; Cuervo, Andrés M.; Sanín, Camilo; Brumfield, Robb T. (2013). "Phylogeny and classification of Automolus foliage-gleaners and allies (Furnariidae)". The Condor. 115 (2): 375–385. doi:10.1525/cond.2013.110198. S2CID   59375772.