Ornate Antwren

About the Ornate Antwren

The ornate stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla ornata), formerly called the ornate antwren, is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

The ornate stipplethroat was described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1853 and given the binomial name Formicivora ornata. It was subsequently placed in genus Myrmotherula. Based on genetic and vocal studies it and seven other members of that genus were moved to genus Epinecrophylla created in 2006. All were eventually named "stipplethroats" to highlight a common feature and to set them apart from Myrmotherula antwrens.

The International Ornithological Committee, the Clements taxonomy, and the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society recognize these five subspecies: E. o. ornata (Sclater, PL, 1853) E. o. saturata (Chapman, 1923)

E. o. atrogularis (Taczanowski, 1874) E. o. meridionalis (Zimmer, JT, 1932) E. o. hoffmannsi (Hellmayr, 1906) However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treats E. o. hoffmannsi as a species called the "eastern... Wikipedia →