Mionectes
Streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Mionectes
Cabanis, 1844
Type species
Mionectes striaticollis

Mionectes is a genus of birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was erected in 1844 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis with the streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis) as the type species.[1][2]

Species

The genus contains the following seven species:[3]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Streak-necked flycatcher Mionectes striaticollis Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Olive-striped flycatcher Mionectes galbinus Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Olive-streaked flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus Costa Rica and Panama.
Ochre-bellied flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus southern Mexico through Central America, and South America east of the Andes as far as southern Brazil, and on Trinidad and Tobago.
McConnell's flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli Guiana Shield, northern Brazil, Peru and Bolivia.
Sierra de Lema flycatcher Mionectes roraimae southern Venezuela and the neighbouring parts of Brazil and Guiana.
Grey-hooded flycatcher Mionectes rufiventris Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

The Tepui flycatcher was formerly considered conspecific with McConnell's flycatcher. The two species have similar plumage but differ in their vocalisation and display behaviour.[4]

References

  1. ^ Cabanis, Jean (1844). "Avium conspectus quae in Republica Pernana reperiuntur et pleraeqne observatae vel collectae sunt in itinere". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in Latin). 10 (1): 262–317 [275].
  2. ^ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 53.
  3. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  4. ^ Hilty, S.L.; Ascanio, D. (2014). "McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli is more than one species" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 134 (4): 270–279.


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