Chestnut-shouldered antwren

The chestnut-shouldered antwren (Euchrepomis humeralis) is an insectorivous bird in the antbird family Thamnophilidae. It is found in far northwestern Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and western Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Chestnut-shouldered antwren

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Euchrepomis
Species:
E. humeralis
Binomial name
Euchrepomis humeralis
(Sclater & Salvin, 1880)
Synonyms

Terenura humeralis

The chestnut-shouldered antwren was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1880 and given the binomial name Terenura humeralis.[2] The current genus Euchrepomis was introduced in 2012.[3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Euchrepomis humeralis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22701653A93842110.en.
  2. Sclater, Philip L.; Salvin, Osbert (1880). "On new birds collected by Mr. C. Buckley in Eastern Ecuador". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (2): 155–161 [159].
  3. Bravo, G.A.; Remsen, J.V.; Whitney, B.M.; Brumfield, R.T. (2012). "DNA sequence data reveal a subfamily-level divergence within Thamnophilidae (Aves: Passeriformes)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65 (1): 287–293. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.016.
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