The barred antshrike (Thamnophilus doliatus) is a passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in the Neotropics in Mexico, every country in Central America, Trinidad and Tobago, and every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay. There is also one accepted record from southern Texas.
Taxonomy and systematics
The barred antshrike was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1764 and given the binomial name Lanius doliatus. The type locality was subsequently designated as Surinam. The specific epithet is from Neo-Latin doliatus meaning "barred".
The barred antshrike has these 12 subspecies:
T. d. intermedius Ridgway, 1888
T. d. nesiotes Wetmore, 1970
T. d. eremnus Wetmore, 1957
T. d. nigricristatus Lawrence, 1865
T. d. albicans Lafresnaye, 1844
T. d. nigrescens Lawrence, 1867
T. d. tobagensis Hartert, EJO & Goodson, 1917
T. d. doliatus (Linnaeus, 1764)
T. d. difficilis Hellmayr, 1903
T. d. capistratus Lesson, RP, 1840
T. d. radiatus Vieillot, 1816
T. d. cadwaladeri Bond, J & Meyer de Schauensee, 1940
Subspecies T. d. capistratus was proposed as a separate species but the data presented confirmed its treatment as a subspecies of the barred antshrike.
What is now Chapman's antshrike (T. azrumae) was for a time treated as a subspecies of the barred antshrike.
