Silvicultrix | |
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Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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]
The genus contains five species: [2]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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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 .
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