Myrmoderus

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Myrmoderus
White-bibbed antbird (Myrmoderus loricatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Myrmoderus
Ridgway, 1909
Type species
Myiothera loricata[1]
Lichtenstein, 1823

Myrmoderus is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.

The genus contains five species:[2]

Image Common name Scientific name Distribution
Ferruginous-backed antbird Myrmoderus ferrugineus Guiana Shield south to Rondônia
Cordillera Azul antbird Myrmoderus eowilsoni Cordillera Azul (Peru)
Scalloped antbird Myrmoderus ruficauda Bahia forests
White-bibbed antbird Myrmoderus loricatus Bahia forests
Squamate antbird Myrmoderus squamosus southern Atlantic Forest

The Cordillera Azul antbird was first described in 2018.[3] The other four species were formerly included in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.[4] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera four species were moved to the resurrected genus Myrmoderus.[2] The genus had originally been erected in 1909 by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway with the white-bibbed antbird as the type species.[5]

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