Myrmeciza

Myrmeciza
The blue-lored antbird ("M." immaculata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Myrmeciza
G.R. Gray, 1841
Type species
Drymophila longipes
Swainson, 1825
Species

Presently 20, but see text

Myrmeciza is a perching bird genus in the family Thamnophilidae. About 20 species have been placed here in recent times, but thus delimited the "genus" is almost certainly not monophyletic.

The species apparently form several discrete groups, at least one of which does certainly not belong here. One seems to be closer to some other genera than to the core of the present genus, but the exact affiliations of the third group as well as some others (including the type species M. longipes) are not robustly resolved.

The species and their groups are:

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