The yellow-winged flatbill (''Tolmomyias flavotectus''), also known as yellow-winged flycatcher, is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family
Tyrannidae
The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America. They are considered the largest family of birds known to exist in the world, with more than 400 species. They are the most dive ...
. It is found in humid forests to the west of the Andes in north west Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.
Taxonomy
The yellow-winged flatbill was described by the German ornithologist
Ernst Hartert
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist.
Life and career
Hartert was born in Hamburg, Germany on 29 October 1859. In July 1891, he married the illustrator Claudia Bernadine E ...
in 1902. He coined the
trinomial name
In biology, trinomial nomenclature refers to names for taxa below the rank of species. These names have three parts. The usage is different in zoology and botany.
In zoology
In zoological nomenclature, a trinomen (), trinominal name, or ternary ...
''Rhynchocyclus megacephala flavotectus'' and specified the
type location as Hacienda Paramba,
Imbabura, Ecuador.
It was formerly treated as a subspecies of
yellow-margined flatbill
The yellow-margined flatbill or Zimmer's flatbill (''Tolmomyias assimilis'') is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in humid forest in southern Central America, and the Chocó and Amazon in South America.
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(''Tolmomyias assimilis'') which is found to the east of the Andes and has very different vocalization.
References
External links
Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the yellow-margined flatbill (''Tolmomyias flavotectus'')
Tolmomyias
Birds of Costa Rica
Birds of Panama
Birds of Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
Birds described in 1902
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