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Summary

Drymophila is a genus of passerine birds in the antbird family Thamnophilidae that are found in South America.

Taxonomy

The genus Drymophila was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1824. The Drymophila antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family, known for thriving in a bamboo-rich environment such as South America by utilizing aspects of the bamboo to allow for a food source, shelter, and protection from predators The type species is the ferruginous antbird. The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words drumos for "wood" or "copse" and philos "fond of".

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020 found that the genus Drymophila was not monophyletic. The scaled antbird (Drymophila squamata) was sister to a clade containing the remaining species in the genus Drymophila and the warbling-antbirds in the genus Hypocnemis.

Species

The genus Drymophila contains the following eleven species:

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution Ferruginous antbird Drymophila ferruginea Atlantic Forest Bertoni's antbird Drymophila rubricollis southern Atlantic Forest Rufous-tailed antbird Drymophila genei mid Atlantic Forest Ochre-rumped antbird Drymophila ochropyga Atlantic Forest Dusky-tailed antbird Drymophila malura Atlantic Forest Scaled antbird Drymophila squamata Atlantic Forest Striated antbird Drymophila devillei southern Amazonia;
eastern foothills of Colombia and Ecuador Santa Marta antbird Drymophila hellmayri Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Klages's antbird Drymophila klagesi Serranía del Perijá, Cordillera de Mérida
and Venezuelan Coastal Range East Andean antbird Drymophila caudata western slope of Cordillera Oriental (Colombia)
& upper Magdalena valley Streak-headed antbird Drymophila striaticeps Northern Andes

Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Drymophila:

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