Hafferia | |
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Zeledon's antbird (Hafferia zeledoni) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: |
Hafferia Isler, ML, Bravo & Brumfield, 2013 |
Type species | |
Thamnophilus immaculatus
Lafresnaye, 1845
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Hafferia is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.
The genus contains three species: [1]
These species were formerly included in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic. [2] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera these three species were moved to the newly erected genus Hafferia with the blue-lored antbird as the type species. [1] The name of the new genus was chosen to commemorate the German ornithologist Jürgen Haffer. [2]