Spot-breasted antvireo

The spot-breasted antvireo (Dysithamnus stictothorax) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in south east Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

Spot-breasted antvireo
Male - southeast Brazil

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Dysithamnus
Species:
D. stictothorax
Binomial name
Dysithamnus stictothorax
(Temminck, 1823)

The spot-breasted antvireo was described by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1823 and given the binomial name Myothera strictothorax (an error for stictothorax)).[2][3] The specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek stiktos "spotted" and thōrax or thōrakos "breastplate".[4] It is now placed in the genus Dysithamnus which was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847.[5]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Dysithamnus stictothorax". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Temminck, Coenraad Jacob (1838) [1823]. Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon (in French). Volume 2. Paris: F.G. Levrault. Plate 179, Figs. 1 & 2. The 5 volumes were originally issued in 102 parts, 1820-1839
  3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 182.
  4. Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  5. Cabanis, Jean (1847). "Ornithologische notizen". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in German). 13: 186–256 [223].
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