Rhegmatorhina | |
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Hairy-crested antbird (Rhegmatorhina melanosticta) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Rhegmatorhina Ridgway, 1888 |
Type species | |
Rhegmatorhina gymnops [1] Ridgway, 1888 |
Rhegmatorhina is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.
The genus was introduced by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1888 with the bare-eyed antbird (Rhegmatorhina gymnops) as the type species. [2] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words rhēgma, rhēgmatos for "fissure" or "cleft" and rhis, rhinos for "nostril". [3]
The genus contains the following species: [4]
These species are specialist ant-followers that depend upon swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter. [5] [6]
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Hylophylax is a genus of bird in the family Thamnophilidae.
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Phlegopsis is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. They are known as "bare-eyes", which is a reference to a colourful bare patch of skin around their eyes. They are restricted to humid forest in the Amazon of South America. They are among the largest ant-followers in the family and are only rarely seen away from ant swarms.
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