Knipolegus | |
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White-winged black tyrant near Machu Picchu, Peru | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Tyrannidae |
Genus: | Knipolegus F. Boie, 1826 |
Type species | |
Muscicapa cyanirostris Vieillot, 1818 |
Knipolegus is a genus of birds, the black tyrants, in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
The genus was erected by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the blue-billed black tyrant as the type species. [1] [2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek knips meaning "insect" and legō meaning "to pick". [3]
The genus contains the following 12 species: [4]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Blue-billed black tyrant | Knipolegus cyanirostris | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. | |
Jelski's black tyrant | Knipolegus signatus | southern Ecuador to northwestern Argentina. | |
Plumbeous tyrant | Knipolegus cabanisi | southeastern Peru, western Bolivia and northern Argentina. | |
Cinereous tyrant | Knipolegus striaticeps | Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina | |
White-winged black tyrant | Knipolegus aterrimus | Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. | |
Hudson's black tyrant | Knipolegus hudsoni | central Argentina and winters northwards, reaching Bolivia and Paraguay. | |
Rufous-tailed tyrant | Knipolegus poecilurus | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. | |
Riverside tyrant | Knipolegus orenocensis | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. | |
Amazonian black tyrant | Knipolegus poecilocercus | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. | |
Crested black tyrant | Knipolegus lophotes | Brazil, Uruguay and northeastern Paraguay | |
Velvety black tyrant | Knipolegus nigerrimus | Brazil | |
Sao Francisco black tyrant or Caatinga black tyrant | Knipolegus franciscanus | Brazil. | |
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