| Drymophila | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Ferruginous antbird (Drymophila ferruginea) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Tribe: | Pithyini |
| Genus: | Drymophila Swainson, 1824 |
| Type species | |
| Drymophila variegata[1] Such, 1824 | |
| Species | |
See text | |
Drymophila is a genus of passerine birds in the antbird family Thamnophilidae that are found in South America.
Taxonomy
editThe genus Drymophila was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1824. The Drymophila antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family, known for thriving in a bamboo-rich environment such as South America by utilizing aspects of the bamboo to allow for a food source, shelter, and protection from predators[2][3] The type species is the ferruginous antbird.[4] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words drumos for "wood" or "copse" and philos "fond of".[5]
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020 found that the genus Drymophila was not monophyletic. The scaled antbird (Drymophila squamata) was sister to a clade containing the remaining species in the genus Drymophila and the warbling-antbirds in the genus Hypocnemis.[6]
Species
editThe genus Drymophila contains the following eleven species:[7]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ferruginous antbird | Drymophila ferruginea | Atlantic Forest |
.jpg) | Bertoni's antbird | Drymophila rubricollis | southern Atlantic Forest |
 | Rufous-tailed antbird | Drymophila genei | mid Atlantic Forest |
 | Ochre-rumped antbird | Drymophila ochropyga | Atlantic Forest |
 | Dusky-tailed antbird | Drymophila malura | Atlantic Forest |
.jpg) | Scaled antbird | Drymophila squamata | Atlantic Forest |
 | Striated antbird | Drymophila devillei | southern Amazonia; eastern foothills of Colombia and Ecuador |
 | Santa Marta antbird | Drymophila hellmayri | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta |
| - | Klages's antbird | Drymophila klagesi | Serranía del Perijá, Cordillera de Mérida and Venezuelan Coastal Range |
| - | East Andean antbird | Drymophila caudata | western slope of Cordillera Oriental (Colombia) & upper Magdalena valley |
 | Streak-headed antbird | Drymophila striaticeps | Northern Andes |
Former species
editFormerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Drymophila:
- Spectacled monarch (as Drymophila trivirgata)[8]
- Island monarch (as Drymophila cinerascens)[9]
- Shining flycatcher (as Drymophila alecto)[10]
Distribution
editSix of the Drymophila species are associated with regions of southeastern Brazil; two of these - Bertoni's and dusky-tailed antbird - also range into eastern Paraguay and extreme northeastern Argentina.
Even at their highest diversity in Brazil's Mata Atlântica, the species are almost completely parapatric, in some cases like the dusky-tailed and scaled antbird even to exclusive habitat preferences. Of course, the rampant deforestation in that region may obscure that there has been more overlap in the past. In any case, habitat fragments strongly tend to hold at most a single species.[11]
D. devillei, the striated antbird, is a species of the southwestern quadrant of the Amazon Basin, and a disjunct population lives in north-western Ecuador and adjacent parts of Colombia.
References
edit- ^ "Thamnophilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Goerck, J. M. (1999). "Ecology, evolution, and biogeography of Drymophila antbirds (Thamnophilidae, Aves) in the neotropics". ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
- ^ Swainson, William (1824). "An inquiry into the natural affinities of the Laniadae, or shrikes; preceded by some observations on the present state of ornithology in this country". Zoological Journal. 1: 289–307 [302].
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 209.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Harvey, M.G.; et al. (2020). "The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot". Science. 370 (6522): 1343–1348. doi:10.1126/science.aaz6970. hdl:10138/329703. A high resolution version of the phylogenetic tree in Figure 1 is available from the first author's website here.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ "Symposiachrus trivirgatus - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ^ "Monarcha cinerascens - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
- ^ "Myiagra alecto - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
- ^ Rajão & Cerqueira (2006)
Further reading
edit- Rajão, Henrique & Cerqueira, Rui (2006): Distribuição altitudinal e simpatria das aves do gênero Drymophila Swainson (Passeriformes, Thamnophilidae) na Mata Atlântica [Elevational distribution and sympatry of birds of the genus Drymophila Swainson (Passeriformes, Thamnophilidae) in the Atlantic forest]. [Portuguese with English abstract] Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 23(3): 597–607.doi:10.1590/S0101-81752006000300002 PDF fulltext
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