Pithys

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Pithys
Pithys albifrons -NBII Image Gallery-a00203.jpg
White-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons)
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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

Pithys is a genus of insectivorous passerine binds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.

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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

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Pithys albifrons -NBII Image Gallery-a00203.jpg Pithys albifrons White-plumed antbird Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana
Pithys castaneus White-masked antbird Peru.

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References

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