White-backed fire-eye

White-backed fire-eye
male P. l. castanoptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Thamnophilidae
Genus:Pyriglena
Species: P. leuconota
Binomial name
Pyriglena leuconota
(von Spix, 1824)
Synonyms

Pyriglena castanoptera Chubb, 1916
Pyriglena pacifica Chapman, 1923

The white-backed fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota) is an insectivorous bird in the antbird family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The white-backed fire-eye was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1824 and given the binomial name Myothera leuconota.[2] The current genus Pyriglena was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847.[3] There are ten recognised subspecies.[4] A study published in 2017 recommended that the white-backed fire-eye should be spit into three separate species.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Pyriglena leuconota". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ von Spix, Johann Baptist (1824). Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX (in Latin). Volume 1. Monachii (Munich): Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni. p. 72, Plate 72 fig. 2.
  3. ↑ Cabanis, Jean (1847). "Ornithologische notizen". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in German). 13: 186–256 [211].
  4. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  5. ↑ Isler, M.L.; Maldonado-Coelho, M. (2017). "Calls distinguish species of Antbirds (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) in the genus Pyriglena" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4291 (2): 275–294. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4291.2.3.
  6. ↑ Isler, M.; Maldonado-Coelho, M. (October 2017). "Proposal (759): Treat Pyriglena (Thamnophilidae) as consisting of five species". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
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