Wing-banded wren

The wing-banded wren (Microcerculus bambla) is a species of bird in the family Troglodytidae. It is found in Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests.

Wing-banded wren

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Troglodytidae
Genus: Microcerculus
Species:
M. bambla
Binomial name
Microcerculus bambla
(Boddaert, 1783)
Synonyms

Cyphorinus albigularis

Taxonomy

The wing-banded wren was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana.[2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text.[3] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Formicarius bambla in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[4] The wing-banded wren is now of four species placed the genus Microcerculus that was introduced by the English naturalist Osbert Salvin in 1861.[5][6] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek mikros meaning "small" and kerkos meaning "tail". The specific bambla is a homophone from the French bande blanche meaning "white band".[7]

Three subspecies are recognised:[6]

  • M. b. albigularis (Sclater, PL, 1858) – east Ecuador, east Peru and northwest Brazil
  • M. b. caurensis von Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902 – east Colombia and south Venezuela
  • M. b. bambla (Boddaert, 1783) – east Venezuela, the Guianas and north Brazil

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Microcerculus bambla". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1779). "Le bambla". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Volume 8. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. p. 248.
  3. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Le banbla, de Cayenne". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Volume 8. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 703 Fig. 2.
  4. Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 44, Number 703 Fig. 2.
  5. Salvin, Osbert (1861). "Descriptions of three new species of bird from Guatemala". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 202-203 [202].
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  7. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 25, 66, 253. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

Further reading
  • Milá, B.; Tavares, E.S.; Muñoz Saldaña, A.; Karubian, J.; Smith, T.B.; Baker, A.J. (2012). "A trans-Amazonian screening of mtDNA reveals deep intraspecific divergence in forest birds and suggests a vast underestimation of species diversity". PLoS ONE. 7 (7). e40541. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040541.


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