Machaeropterus
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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| image = Machaeropterus deliciosus -NW Ecuador-6.jpg
| image_caption = Club-winged manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus)
| taxon = Machaeropterus
| authority = Bonaparte, 1854
| type_species = Pipra strigilata{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=104 |title= Pipridae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-24}}
| type_species_authority = zu Wied, 1822
}}
Machaeropterus is a genus of passerine birds in the manakin family Pipridae. They are found in the tropical forests of South America.
Taxonomy
The genus Machaeropterus was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.{{ cite journal | last=Bonaparte | first=Charles Lucien | author-link=Charles Lucien Bonaparte | year=1854 | title=Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum | journal=L'Ateneo Italiano. Raccolta di Documenti e Memorie Relative al Progresso delle Scienze Fisiche | volume=2 | issue=11 | pages=311–321 [316] | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BR1pAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA316 }} The type species was subsequently designated as the kinglet manakin.{{ cite book | editor-last1=Dickinson | editor-first1=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | editor-last2=Christidis | editor-first2=L. | editor2-link=Leslie Christidis | year=2014 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | volume=2: Passerines | edition=4th | place=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-2-2 | page=9 }} The name Machaeropterus combines the Ancient Greek words μαχαιρα makhaira "knife" or "dagger" and -πτερος -pteros "-winged".{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2018 | title=Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/machaeropterus | accessdate=27 June 2018 }}
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| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Machaeropterus deliciosus | Club-winged manakin | Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. |
| 120px | Machaeropterus regulus | Kinglet manakin | Atlantic Forest of south eastern Brazil |
| 120px | Machaeropterus striolatus (split from M. regulus) | Striolated manakin | Colombia, east Ecuador, east Peru and west Amazonian Brazil, Venezuela and west Guyana |
| Machaeropterus eckelberryi | Painted manakin | north west Peru. | |
| 120px | Machaeropterus pyrocephalus | Fiery-capped manakin | Brazil, southeast Peru, and northern Bolivia; also Venezuela |
References
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Category:Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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