Knipolegus
Knipolegus is a genus of birds, the black tyrants, in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
| Knipolegus | |
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| White-winged black tyrant near Machu Picchu, Peru | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Knipolegus F. Boie, 1826 |
The genus was erected by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the blue-billed black tyrant (Knipolegus cyanirostris) as the type species.[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek knips meaning "insect" and legō meaning "to pick".[3]
The genus contains the following 12 species:[4]
- Cinereous tyrant, Knipolegus striaticeps
- Hudson's black tyrant, Knipolegus hudsoni
- Amazonian black tyrant, Knipolegus poecilocercus
- Jelski's black tyrant, Knipolegus signatus
- Plumbeous tyrant, Knipolegus cabanisi
- Blue-billed black tyrant, Knipolegus cyanirostris
- Rufous-tailed tyrant, Knipolegus poecilurus
- Riverside tyrant, Knipolegus orenocensis
- White-winged black tyrant, Knipolegus aterrimus
- Sao Francisco black tyrant or Caatinga black tyrant, Knipolegus franciscanus
- Velvety black tyrant, Knipolegus nigerrimus
- Crested black tyrant, Knipolegus lophotes
References
- Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht der ornithologischen Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen". Isis von Oken (in German). 19. Cols 969–981 [973 Fn. 2].
- Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 173.
- Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Knipolegus". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
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