Silvicultrix

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| name = Silvicultrix

| image = Ochthoeca diadema.jpg

| image_caption = Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant
(Silvicultrix diadema)

| taxon = Silvicultrix

| authority = Lanyon, W, 1986

| type_species = Myiobius diadema

| type_species_authority = Hartlaub, 1843

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Silvicultrix is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was erected by the American ornithologist Wesley E. Lanyon in 1986 with the yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema) as the type species.{{ cite book | last=Lanyon | first=Wesley E. | year=1986 | title=A phylogeny of the thirty-three genera in the Empidonax assemblage of tyrant flycatchers | series=American Museum Novitates; Number 2846 | place=New York, USA | publisher=American Museum of Natural History | pages=27–28 | hdl=2246/3581 | url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/3581 }}