Cordillera Azul Antbird / Myrmoderus eowilsoni
Cordillera Azul Antbird
SCI Name:
Protonym: Myrmoderus eowilsoni Auk 135(1) 114-126
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Myrmoderus
Taxonomy Code: whiant1
Type Locality:
Author: Moncrieff et al.
Publish Year: 2018
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
MYRMODERUS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ White-bibbed Antbird M. loricatus) Gr. μυρμος murmos ant; δερω derō to thrash, to cudgel; "Myrmoderus gen. nov. (Formicariidæ.) Related to Myrmeciza Gray but tail much longer (more than five-sixths as long, sometimes longer than, wing, bill more slender, nostril larger and more longitudinal, and forehead more densely feathered, with feathers more compactly webbed, more decumbent; style of coloration very different. Type.— Myiothera loricata Lichtenstein. (Mυρμηξ, an ant; δερω, I flay, cudgel.)" (Ridgway 1909).
Synon. Myrmedestes.
eowilsoni
Prof. Edward Osborne Wilson (b. 1929) US sociobiologist, myrmecologist, conservationist, Pulitzer Prize winner 1979, 1991 (Myrmoderus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)