Pithys | |
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White-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Pithys Vieillot, 1818 |
Type species | |
Pithys leucops = Pithys albifrons Vieillot, 1818 |
Pithys is a genus of insectivorous passerine binds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.
The species in this genus are specialist ant-followers that depend on swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.
The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818. The type species is the white-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons). It contains two species:
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Pithys albifrons | White-plumed antbird | Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana |
Pithys castaneus | White-masked antbird | Peru. |
Taxon identifiers | |
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Pithys |
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