Ihering's Antwren

SCI Name:  Myrmotherula iheringi
Protonym:  Myrmotherula iheringi Orn.Monatsb. 22 p.41
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Myrmotherula
Taxonomy Code:  iheant1
Type Locality:  Boim, left bank of the lower Tapajoz, Brazil.
Author:  Snethlage, E
Publish Year:  1914
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.

iheringi
Hermann Friedrich Albrecht von Ihering (or Jhering) (1850-1930) German zoologist, collector in Brazil 1880-1920, founding Director of Museu Paulista, Brazil (subsp. Aegolius harrisii, Formicivora, Myrmotherula) (see jheringi).

SUBSPECIES

Ihering's Antwren (Purus)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula iheringi heteroptera
heteroptera
Gr. ἑτερος heteros  different; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron wing.

Ihering's Antwren (Ihering's)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula iheringi iheringi
iheringi
Hermann Friedrich Albrecht von Ihering (or Jhering) (1850-1930) German zoologist, collector in Brazil 1880-1920, founding Director of Museu Paulista, Brazil (subsp. Aegolius harrisii, Formicivora, Myrmotherula) (see jheringi).

Ihering's Antwren (Bamboo)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula iheringi oreni
oreni
Dr David C. Oren (fl. 2012) US ornithologist, champion of the legendary Mapinguari, considered to be the extinct giant sloth (syn. Hylopezus whittakeri, subsp. Myrmotherula iheringi).