Phlegopsis
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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| image = Phlegopsis nigromaculata 1847.jpg
| image_caption = Black-spotted bare-eye (Phlegopsis nigromaculata)
| taxon = Phlegopsis
| authority = Reichenbach, 1850
| type_species = Myiothera nigromaculata{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=108 |title= Thamnophilidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}
| type_species_authority = d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837
}}
Phlegopsis is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. They are known as "bare-eyes", which is a reference to a colourful bare patch of skin around their eyes. They are restricted to humid forest in the Amazon of South America. They are among the largest ant-followers in the family and are only rarely seen away from ant swarms.
Taxonomy
The pale-faced bare-eye, sometimes known as the pale-faced antbird, has often been placed in the monotypic genus Skutchia, but based on genetic evidence it should be placed in Phlegopsis,{{ cite journal | last1=Aleixo | first1=A. | last2=Burlamaqui | first2=T.C.T. | last3=Schneider | first3=M.P.C. | last4=Goncalves | first4=E.C. | year=2009 | title=Molecular systematics and plumage evolution in the monotypic obligate army-ant-following genus Skutchia (Thamnophilidae) | journal=Condor | volume=111 | issue=2 | pages=382–387 | doi=10.1525/cond.2009.080097| s2cid=86429198 | url=https://repositorio.museu-goeldi.br/bitstream/mgoeldi/97/1/Condor%20v111%20n2%202009%20ALEIXO.pdf | doi-access=free }} and this treatment was adopted by the SACC in 2010.{{ cite web | last=Brumfield | first=R.T. | title=Proposal (432): Merge Skutchia borbae into Phlegopsis (Thamnophilidae | url=http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop432.htm | publisher=South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society | date=April 2010 | accessdate=6 February 2018 }} Based on a single specimen a fourth species, the Argus bare-eye (P. barringeri) has been proposed, but it is a hybrid between P. erythroptera and P. nigromaculata.{{ cite journal | last=Graves | first=Garry R. | year=1992 | title=Diagnosis of a hybrid antbird (Phlegopsis nigromaculata X Phlegopsis erythroptera) and the rarity of hybridization among suboscines | journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington | volume=105 | pages=834–340 | hdl=10088/16733 | url=https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/16733 }}
- Reddish-winged bare-eye (Phlegopsis erythroptera)
- Black-spotted bare-eye (Phlegopsis nigromaculata)
- Pale-faced bare-eye (Phlegopsis borbae)
References
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Category:Birds of the Amazon rainforest
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Category:Taxa named by Ludwig Reichenbach
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