Long-winged Antwren

SCI Name:  Myrmotherula longipennis
Protonym:  Myrmotherula longipennis Orn.Brasil. Abth.2 p.82,153
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Myrmotherula
Taxonomy Code:  lowant1
Type Locality:  Marabitanas, Rio Negro, Brazil.
Author:  von Pelzeln
Publish Year:  1868
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.

longipennis
L. longus  long; -pennis  -winged, -feathered  < penna  feather.

SUBSPECIES

Long-winged Antwren (longipennis)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula longipennis longipennis
longipennis
L. longus  long; -pennis  -winged, -feathered  < penna  feather.

Long-winged Antwren (zimmeri)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula longipennis zimmeri
zimmeri
Dr John Todd Zimmer (1889-1957) US ornithologist, taxonomist (subsp. Amazilia lactea, subsp. Atlapetes semirufus, subsp. Cnemathraupis eximia, subsp. Culicicapa helianthea, subsp. Deconychura pallida, syn. Hemispingus superciliaris chrysophrys, subsp. Hemitriccus obsoletus, subsp. Metriopelia ceciliae, subsp. Microeca fascinans, subsp. Myrmotherula longipennis, syn. Piranga hepatica, Scytalopus, Synallaxis, syn. Thamnophilus stictocephalus, subsp. Tolmomyias flaviventris, syn. Tyrannus melancholicus).

Long-winged Antwren (garbei)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula longipennis garbei
garbei
P. Ernest William Garbe (1853-1925) collector for the Zoology Mus., University of São Paulo (subsp. Myrmotherula longipennis).

Long-winged Antwren (ochrogyna)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula longipennis ochrogyna
ochrogyna / ochrogyne
Gr. ωχρος ōkhros  pale-yellow; ωχρα ōkhra  yellow-ochre; γυνη gunē, γυναικος gunaikos  wife, female.

Long-winged Antwren (paraensis)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula longipennis paraensis
paraensis
Pará State, eastern Brazil.

Long-winged Antwren (transitiva)
SCI Name: Myrmotherula longipennis transitiva
transitiva / transitivus
L. transitivus passing over, transitive < transire to go over.