Black-and-white antbird

The black-and-white antbird (Myrmochanes hemileucus) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is monotypic within the genus Myrmochanes.[2] It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.[1]

Black-and-white antbird
A male at Marchantaria island, Iranduba, Amazonas state, Brazil

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Myrmochanes
Allen, 1889
Species:
M. hemileucus
Binomial name
Myrmochanes hemileucus
(Sclater & Salvin, 1866)

The black-and-white antbird was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1866 and given the binomial name Hypocmenis hemileucus.[3]

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