Plain-winged Antwren

SCI Name:  Myrmotherula behni
Protonym:  Myrmotherula behni Ornis 6 p.25 pl.1 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Myrmotherula
Taxonomy Code:  plwant2
Type Locality:  Bogota, Colombia.
Author:  von Berlepsch & Leverkühn
Publish Year:  1890
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYRMOTHERULA
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Pygmy Antwren M. brachyura) Dim. < genus Myrmothera Vieillot, 1816, antpitta; "GENUS II. MYRMOTHERULA.  Cauda brevis; sæpe brevissima: rectricibus plerumque duodecim, interdum decem: rostrum tenue, subulatum, non magis altum quam latum: acrotarsiis et paratarsiis divisis.  In M. pygmæa and the next following species of this genus the tail is very diminutive, and the tail-feathers are much narrowed. In the latter part of the series it is longer and more broadly feathered, but never so elongated as in true Formicivora. The general facies of these two genera is otherwise nearly the same.   1. MYRMOTHERULA PYGMÆA.  Gobemouche à poitrine orangée de Cayenne, Buff. Pl. Enl. 831. fig. 2.  Muscicapa pygmæa, Gm. S. N. i. p. 933.  Myrmothera minuta, D'Orb. Voy. p. 184?  Formicivora pygmæa, Cab. Orn. Not. p. 227; Bp. Consp. p. 200; Sclater, P.Z.S. 1855, p. 147.   ...   2. MYRMOTHERULA SURINAMENSIS   ...   3. MYRMOTHERULA MULTOSTRIATA   ...   4. MYRMOTHERULA GUTTATA   ...   5. MYRMOTHERULA GULARIS   ...   6. MYRMOTHERULA HÆMATONOTA   ...   7. MYRMOTHERULA ORNATA   ...   8. MYRMOTHERULA HAUXWELLI   ...   9. MYRMOTHERULA ERYTHRONOTA   ...   10. MYRMOTHERULA AXILLARIS.  Le grisin de Cayenne, femelle, Buff.   ...   11. MYRMOTHERULA MELÆNA   ...   12. MYRMOTHERULA MENETRIESI   ...   13. MYRMOTHERULA BREVICAUDA   ...   14. MYRMOTHERULAUROSTICTA" (P. Sclater 1858); "Myrmotherula Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 26, 1858, p. 234. Type, by subsequent designation, M. pygmaea, i.e. Muscicapa pygmaea Gmelin = Muscicapa brachyura Hermann (Sclater, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 15, 1890, p. 229)." (Peters 1951, VII, 188).
Var. Myrmetherula, Myrmotheula, Mormotherula.
Synon. Myrmopagis, Myrmophila, Myrmotherium, Poliolaema.

behni
Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn (1808-1878) German zoologist, explorer who crossed South America 1847, Director of Institute of Anatomy & Zoological Mus., Kiel (subsp. Brotogeris chiriri, subsp. Dendrocitta vagabunda, Myrmotherula, syn. Phrygilus erythronotus, subsp. Trogon curucui).

SUBSPECIES

Plain-winged Antwren (yavii)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula behni yavii
yavii
Cerro Yaví, Territorio Amazonas, Venezuela.

Plain-winged Antwren (camanii)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula behni camanii
camanii
Cerro Camani, Amazonas, Venezuela.

Plain-winged Antwren (inornata)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula behni inornata
inornata / inornatum / inornatus
L. inornatus  plain, unadorned  < in-  not; ornatus  adorned, decorated  < ornare  to adorn.
● See: mavornata

Plain-winged Antwren (behni)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula behni behni
behni
Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn (1808-1878) German zoologist, explorer who crossed South America 1847, Director of Institute of Anatomy & Zoological Mus., Kiel (subsp. Brotogeris chiriri, subsp. Dendrocitta vagabunda, Myrmotherula, syn. Phrygilus erythronotus, subsp. Trogon curucui).