The wing-banded antbird (''Myrmornis torquata'') is a species of
passerine bird in the
antbird family, Thamnophilidae. It is placed in the
monotypic genus ''Myrmornis''.
It is found in
Brazil,
Colombia
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,
Ecuador,
French Guiana,
Guyana
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,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Peru,
Suriname
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, and
Venezuela. Its natural
habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forests.
Taxonomy
The wing-banded antbird was described by French polymath
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his ''Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux'' from a specimen collected in
Cayenne
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,
French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by
François-Nicolas Martinet in the ''Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle'' which was produced under the supervision of
Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist
Pieter Boddaert coined the
binomial name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
''Formicarius torquatus'' in his catalogue of the ''Planches Enluminées''. The wing-banded antbird is now the only species placed in the
genus ''Myrmornis'' that was introduced by the French naturalist
Johann Hermann in 1783. The generic name combines the
Ancient Greek ''murmēx'' meaning "ant" and ''ornis'' meaning "bird". The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
''torquata'' or ''torquatus'' is the Latin for "collared".
Two
subspecies
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are recognised:
* ''M. t. stictoptera'' (
Salvin, 1893) – east Nicaragua to northwest Colombia
* ''M. t. torquata'' (Boddaert, 1783) – Amazonia
The online edition of the ''
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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'' treats the two subspecies as separate species: the northern wing-banded antbird (''Myrmornis stictoptera'') and the southern wing-banded antbird (''Myrmornis torquata'').
References
External links
Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the wing-banded antbird
wing-banded antbird
Birds of Nicaragua
Birds of Panama
Birds of the Amazon Basin
Birds of Colombia
Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Birds of the Peruvian Amazon
Birds of the Guianas
wing-banded antbird
Birds of Brazil
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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