Mionectes
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{For|a synonym of a genus of butterflies|Hyalothyrus}}
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| image = Mionectes striaticollis -NBII Image Gallery-a00255.jpg
| image_caption = Streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis)
| taxon = Mionectes
| authority = Cabanis, 1844
|type_species =Mionectes striaticollis
}}
Mionectes is a genus of birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
The genus was erected in 1844 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis with the streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis) as the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Cabanis | first=Jean | year=1844 | title=Avium conspectus quae in Republica Pernana reperiuntur et pleraeqne observatae vel collectae sunt in itinere | language=la | journal=Archiv für Naturgeschichte | volume=10 | issue=1 | pages=262–317 [275]| url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9697416 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Traylor | editor-first=Melvin A. Jr | year=1979 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=8 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=53 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14500830 }}
Species
The genus contains the following seven species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Tyrant flycatchers | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flycatchers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=27 June 2019 }}
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| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Streak-necked flycatcher | Mionectes striaticollis | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. |
| 120px | Olive-striped flycatcher | Mionectes galbinus | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. |
| 120px | Olive-streaked flycatcher | Mionectes olivaceus | Costa Rica and Panama. |
| 120px | Ochre-bellied flycatcher | Mionectes oleagineus | southern Mexico through Central America, and South America east of the Andes as far as southern Brazil, and on Trinidad and Tobago. |
| 120px | McConnell's flycatcher | Mionectes macconnelli | Guiana Shield, northern Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. |
| Sierra de Lema flycatcher | Mionectes roraimae | southern Venezuela and the neighbouring parts of Brazil and Guiana. | |
| 120px | Grey-hooded flycatcher | Mionectes rufiventris | Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. |
The Tepui flycatcher was formerly considered conspecific with McConnell's flycatcher. The two species have similar plumage but differ in their vocalisation and display behaviour.{{ cite journal | last1=Hilty | first1=S.L. | last2=Ascanio | first2=D. | year=2014 | title=McConnell's Flycatcher Mionectes macconnelli is more than one species | journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club | volume=134 | issue=4 | pages=270–279 | url=https://boc-online.org/bulletins/downloads/BBOC1344-Hilty.pdf }}
References
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