Spot-backed Antshrike

SCI Name:  Hypoedaleus guttatus
Protonym:  Thamnophilus guttatus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 3 p.315
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Hypoedaleus
Taxonomy Code:  spbant3
Type Locality:  South America, = Rio de Janeiro by designation of Hellmayr, 1924, p. 40.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1816
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYPOEDALEUS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Spot-backed Antshrike H. guttatus) Gr. ὑποιδαλεος hupoidaleos  somewhat swollen  < ὑπο hupo  somewhat; οιδαω oidaō  to cause to swell; "Gen. HYPOEDALEUS **) nov. gen. — Perl-Batara.   70. 1. H. guttatus Nob.   Thamnophilus guttatus Vieill. N. D. III. p. 315. — Lanius meleager Licht. Doubl. no. 491. — Thamnophilus maculatus Such Z. Journ. I. p. 557. t. suppl. 6. — Thamnophilus meleagris Gray Gen. B. 1. p. 297. — Thamnophilus meleager Scl. Gen. Thamn. no. 4.   ...   **) Von ὑποιδαλεος (subtumidus); durch die schon an Cymbolaemus erinnernde, angeschwollene Schnabelbildung ausgezeichnete Gattung." (Cabanis & Heine 1859) "Hypoedaleus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., Th. 2, 1859-60 (1859), p. 18. Type, by monotypy, Thamnophilus guttatus Vieillot." (Peters 1951, VII, 154).
Var. Hypaedaleus.

guttatum / guttatus
L. guttatus spotted, speckled  < gutta  spot, drop.
● ex “Esparvero pardo y goteado” (= ☼) of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 24 (syn. Accipiter bicolor pileatus).
● ex “Perroquet Amazone varié du Brésil” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 120 (?syn. Amazona ochrocephalus).
● ex “Grimpar Picucule” of Levaillant 1807 (Xiphorhynchus).