Parker's antbird (''Cercomacroides parkeri'') is a species of passerine bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is endemic to

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

. Parker's antbird was described by the American ornithologist Gary Graves in 1997 and given the binomial name ''Cercomacra parkeri''. The specific name was chosen to honour the American ornithologist

Theodore A. Parker III Theodore Albert "Ted" Parker III (April 1, 1953 – August 3, 1993) was an American ornithologist who specialized in the Neotropics. He "was widely considered the finest field birder / ornithologist that the world had ever seen." Biography Parke ...

(1953—1993). A

molecular phylogenetic Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...

study published in 2014 found that the genus ''

Cercomacra ''Cercomacra'' is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae. The genus was erected by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1858. The type species was subsequently designated as the Rio de Janeiro antbird. The genus contains se ...

'' was polyphyletic. The genus was therefore split to create two

monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...

genera and six species including Parker's antbird were moved to the newly erected genus ''

Cercomacroides ''Cercomacroides'' is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae. The genus contains six species: * Willis's antbird (''Cercomacroides laeta'') * Parker's antbird (''Cercomacroides parkeri'') * Blackish antbird (''Cercomacroides ...

''.

References

Parker's antbird Birds of the Colombian Andes Endemic birds of Colombia Parker's antbird Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Thamnophilidae-stub