Lepidocolaptes

Lepidocolaptes
File:Spot-crowned Woodcreeper.jpg
Spot-crowned woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes affinis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Subfamily:	Dendrocolaptinae
Genus:	Lepidocolaptes Reichenbach, 1853
Type species
Dendrocolaptes squamatus Scaled woodcreeper Lichtenstein, 1822
Species
see text

Lepidocolaptes is a genus of birds in the ovenbird family Furnariidae. These are relatively small woodcreepers (subfamily Dendrocolaptinae) with fairly long, thin and slightly decurved bills.

Taxonomy

The genus Lepidocolaptes was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. The name combines the Ancient Greek lepis meaning "scale" with kolaptēs meaning "pecker". The type species was designated as the scaled woodcreeper by George Robert Gray in 1855.

Species

The genus contains 11 species:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
File:White-striped Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes leucogaster) (8079381062) (2).jpg	Lepidocolaptes leucogaster	White-striped woodcreeper	Mexico.
File:Streak-headed Woodcreeper - Darién - Panama (48444473992).jpg	Lepidocolaptes souleyetii	Streak-headed woodcreeper	southern Mexico to northwestern Peru, northern Brazil and Guyana, and also on Trinidad.
File:Lepidocolaptes angustirostris -Argentina-8.jpg	Lepidocolaptes angustirostris	Narrow-billed woodcreeper	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Suriname, and Uruguay.
File:Trepatroncos Corona Punteada - panoramio.jpg	Lepidocolaptes affinis	Spot-crowned woodcreeper	central Mexico in the east, the Sierra Madre Orientals, to northern Panama.
File:Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger (Trepatroncos montañero) (14033555252).jpg	Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger	Montane woodcreeper	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
File:Lepidocolaptes squamatus; Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (cropped).jpg	Lepidocolaptes squamatus	Scaled woodcreeper	Brazil.
File:Lepidocolaptes falcinellus - Scalloped Woodcreeper; Monte Verde, Camanducaia, Minas Gerais, Brazil (cropped).jpg	Lepidocolaptes falcinellus	Scalloped woodcreeper	southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and far northeastern Argentina.
File:Lepidocolaptes albolineatus - Lineated woodcreeper, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.jpg	Lepidocolaptes albolineatus	Guianan woodcreeper	Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and eastern Venezuela.
File:Lepidocolaptes duidae - Duida Woodcreeper; Iquitos, Peru.jpg	Lepidocolaptes duidae	Duida woodcreeper	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
File:Lepidocolaptes fatimalimae - Inambari woodcreeper.jpg	Lepidocolaptes fatimalimae	Inambari woodcreeper	southwestern Amazonia
File:Lepidocolaptes layardi - Layard's Woodcreeper; Parauapebas, Para, Brazil (cropped).jpg	Lepidocolaptes fuscicapillus	Dusky-capped woodcreeper (formerly named Rondonia woodcreeper)	southeastern Amazonia

The lesser woodcreeper was formerly included in this genus, but is now in Xiphorhynchus.