Wing-banded antbird

The wing-banded antbird (Myrmornis torquata) is a species of passerine bird in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. It is placed in the monotypic genusMyrmornis.[2] It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitatis subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[1]
The French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon described the wing-banded antbird in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux in 1779.[3] 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.[4] Buffon did not include a scientific name with his description but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Formicarius torquatus in his catalogue of the Planche Enluminées.[5] The specific name torquata or torquatus is the Latin for "collared".[6] The current genus Myrmornis was introduced by the French naturalist Johann Hermann in 1783.[7]
There are two subspecies:[8]
* M. t. stictoptera (Salvin, 1893) – east Nicaragua to northwest Colombia
* M. t. torquata (Boddaert, 1783) – Amazonia
The online edition of the Handbook of the Birds of the World treats the two subspecies as separate species: the northern wing-banded antbird (Myrmornis stictoptera) and the southern wing-banded antbird (Myrmornis torquata).[9][10]
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