Band-tailed Antbird / Hypocnemoides maculicauda

Band-tailed Antbird / Hypocnemoides maculicauda

Band-tailed Antbird

SCI Name:  Hypocnemoides maculicauda
Protonym:  Hypocnemis maculicauda Orn.Brasil. Abth.2 p.89
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae /
Taxonomy Code:  batant1
Type Locality:  Villa Maria [= Sao Luiz de Caceres], Engenho do Gama, and [Villa Bella de] Mato Grosso.
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Publish Year:  1868
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DEFINITIONS

HYPOCNEMOIDES
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Black-chinned Antbird H. melanopogon) Genus Hypocnemis Cabanis, 1847, antbird; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "HYPOCNEMOIDES, gen. nov.  Type.— Hypocnemis melanopogon Sclater, Proc. zool. soc. London, 1857, p. 130.   Characters.—  Similar to Myrmoborus Cabanis & Heine, type Pithys leucophrys Tschudi, but smaller, bill much longer, more slender, and more flattened, very much like the bill of Sclateria Oberholser." (Bangs & Penard 1918).

maculicauda / maculicaudis / maculicaudus
L. macula  spot; cauda  tail.