Silvicultrix

Silvicultrix
Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Silvicultrix Lanyon, W, 1986
Type species
Myiobius diadema Hartlaub, 1843
Species
see text

Silvicultrix is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was erected by the American ornithologist Wesley E. Lanyon in 1986 with the yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema) as the type species. ^[1]

Species

The genus contains five species: ^[2]

Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Crowned chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix frontalis	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
	Kalinowski's chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix spodionota	Bolivia and Peru
	Golden-browed chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix pulchella	Yungas of Peru and Bolivia.
	Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix diadema	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
	Jelski's chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix jelskii	Peru and southern Ecuador.

These species were formerly included in the genus Ochthoeca .

References

1. Lanyon, Wesley E. (1986). A phylogeny of the thirty-three genera in the Empidonax assemblage of tyrant flycatchers. American Museum Novitates; Number 2846. New York, USA: American Museum of Natural History. pp. 27–28. hdl:2246/3581.
2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 January 2018.