Mionectes
Appearance
Mionectes | |
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Streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Tyrannidae |
Genus: | Mionectes Cabanis, 1844 |
Type species | |
Mionectes striaticollis |
Mionectes is a genus of birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
The genus was erected in 1844 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis with the streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis) as the type species.[1][2]
Species
The genus contains the following seven species:[3]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Streak-necked flycatcher | Mionectes striaticollis | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. |
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Olive-striped flycatcher | Mionectes galbinus | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. |
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Olive-streaked flycatcher | Mionectes olivaceus | Costa Rica and Panama. |
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Ochre-bellied flycatcher | Mionectes oleagineus | southern Mexico through Central America, and South America east of the Andes as far as southern Brazil, and on Trinidad and Tobago. |
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McConnell's flycatcher | Mionectes macconnelli | Guiana Shield, northern Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. |
Sierra de Lema flycatcher | Mionectes roraimae | southern Venezuela and the neighbouring parts of Brazil and Guiana. | |
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Grey-hooded flycatcher | Mionectes rufiventris | Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. |
The Tepui flycatcher was formerly considered conspecific with McConnell's flycatcher. The two species have similar plumage but differ in their vocalisation and display behaviour.[4]
References
- ^ Cabanis, Jean (1844). "Avium conspectus quae in Republica Pernana reperiuntur et pleraeqne observatae vel collectae sunt in itinere". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in Latin). 10 (1): 262–317 [275].
- ^ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 53.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ Hilty, S.L.; Ascanio, D. (2014). "McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli is more than one species" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 134 (4): 270–279.