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Pithys
''Pithys'' is a genus of insectivorous passerine binds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. 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. The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818. The type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ... is the white-plumed antbird (''Pithys albifrons''). It contains two species: Species References External links * * Bird genera Taxa named by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Thamnophilidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-plumed Antbird
The white-plumed antbird (''Pithys albifrons'') is a small species of insectivorous bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ..., Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 4 March 2024. Species Lists of Birds for South American Countries and Territories. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm retrieved March 5, 2024 Taxonomy The first Species description, formal description of the white-plumed antbird was by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the 12th editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
