''Hylophylax'' is a genus of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family

Thamnophilidae The antbirds are a large passerine bird family, Thamnophilidae, found across subtropical and tropical Central and South America, from Mexico to Argentina. There are more than 230 species, known variously as antshrikes, antwrens, antvireos, fire ...

. The genus ''Hylophylax'' was erected by the American ornithologist

Robert Ridgway Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929) was an American ornithologist specializing in systematics. He was appointed in 1880 by Spencer Fullerton Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be the first full-time curator of bird ...

in 1909 with the

spotted antbird The spotted antbird (''Hylophylax naevioides'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. In southern Central America, it is found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; also Colombia and Ecuador of northwestern South America. It ...

as 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 ...

. It contains three species: *

Spotted antbird The spotted antbird (''Hylophylax naevioides'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. In southern Central America, it is found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; also Colombia and Ecuador of northwestern South America. It ...

, ''Hylophylax naevioides'' * Spot-backed antbird, ''Hylophylax naevius'' * Dot-backed antbird, ''Hylophylax punctulatus'' The common scale-backed antbird was formerly included in ''Hylophylax''. A molecular study found that it was not closely related to the other species and it was therefore moved to a newly erected genus '' Willisornis''.Revive the genus Dichropogon
- South American Classification Committee (2007)
- South American Classification Committee (2008)

References

Bird genera Taxa named by Robert Ridgway Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Thamnophilidae-stub