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
[1] = Pithys albifrons Vieillot, 1818
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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. [2]
The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818. [3] The type species is the white-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons). [4] It contains two species: [5]
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. |