''Hypocnemis'' is a genus of

passerine A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by th ...

birds 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 ...

. They are resident breeders in

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Central and

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. The genus ''Hypocnemis'' was introduced by the German ornithologist

Jean Cabanis Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist. Cabanis was born in Berlin to an old Huguenot family who had moved from France. Little is known of his early life. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1 ...

in 1847. The name combines the

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words ''hupo'' "somewhat like" and ''knēmis'' "leggings". The

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was subsequently designated as the Guianan warbling antbird. The genus contains eight species: * Guianan warbling antbird, ''Hypocnemis cantator'' * Imeri warbling antbird, ''Hypocnemis flavescens'' * Peruvian warbling antbird, ''Hypocnemis peruviana'' * Yellow-breasted warbling antbird, ''Hypocnemis subflava'' * Rondonia warbling antbird, ''Hypocnemis ochrogyna'' * Spix's warbling antbird, ''Hypocnemis striata'' * Manicoré warbling antbird, ''Hypocnemis rondoni'' * Yellow-browed antbird, ''Hypocnemis hypoxantha'' The warbling antbird has traditionally been considered a single polytypic species, but recent evidence has led to it being split into six almost entirely

parapatric In parapatric speciation, two subpopulations of a species evolve reproductive isolation from one another while continuing to exchange genes. This mode of speciation has three distinguishing characteristics: 1) mating occurs non-randomly, 2) gene ...

species.

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