Formicarius (bird)

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Formicarius
Formicarius rufipectus.jpg
Rufous-breasted antthrush (Formicarius rufipectus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Formicariidae
Genus: Formicarius
Boddaert, 1783
Type species
Formicarius cayanensis [1]
Boddaert, 1783
Species
  • F. colma
  • F. nigricapillus
  • F. analis
  • F. moniliger
  • F. rufifrons
  • F. rufipectus

Formicarius is a genus of passerine birds in the family Formicariidae. These birds are all found in the tropical New World, from southern Mexico south to Central America and northern South America. All are named as antthrushes, and are insectivorous forest birds. They are largely terrestrial, feeding mainly on the ground on ants and other insects.

Taxonomy

The genus Formicarius was introduced by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert in 1783 in his catalogue of the ten volumes of hand-coloured plates that had been engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet. The plates were produced to accompany Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux . [2] The type species was subsequently designated as the rufous-capped antthrush (Formicarius colma) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840. [3] [4] The generic name Formicarius is Latin meaning "of the ant". [5]

The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic relationships between the species. It is based on a large molecular phylogenetic study of the suboscines by Michael Harvey and collaborators that was published in 2020. [6] The six species are those recognised by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOC). [7]

Formicarius

Rufous-fronted antthrush (Formicarius rufifrons)

Rufous-capped antthrush (Formicarius colma)

Rufous-breasted antthrush (Formicarius rufipectus)

Mayan antthrush (Formicarius moniliger)

Black-headed antthrush (Formicarius nigricapillus)

Black-faced antthrush (Formicarius analis)

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Formicarius colma -Vale do Ribeira, Registro, Sao Paulo, Brazil-8 (1).jpg Rufous-capped antthrush Formicarius colmaBolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Tetema coq-de-bois cropped.jpg Black-faced antthrush Formicarius analisfrom Honduras through Central America to Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Brazil
Mayan antthrush (formerly considered conspecific with the black-faced antthrush)Formicarius moniligersouthern Mexico through northwestern Honduras.
Rufous-fronted antthrush Formicarius rufifronssoutheastern Peru, northwestern Bolivia (Pando), and far southwestern Brazil
Black-headed antthrush Formicarius nigricapillusCaribbean slope of eastern Costa Rica and both slopes of Panama to Chocó of western Colombia and Ecuador.
Rufous-breasted Antthrush 2015-06-08 (2) (25452497347).jpg Rufous-breasted antthrush Formicarius rufipectusColombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.

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