Gymnopithys

Hairy-crested antbird Rhegmatorhina melanosticta, copyright Luciano Bernandes.

Belongs within: Thamnophilidae.

Gymnopithys is a genus of medium-sized antbirds with bare skin around the eyes, relatively short legs and tail, and the second phalanx of the middle toe partially joined to the outer toe.

<==Gymnopithys
|--+--G. lunulatusBKB15
| `--G. salviniBKB15
`--+--+--G. bicolorBKB15 [=G. leucaspis bicolorE52]
| `--+--G. leucaspisBKB15
| `--G. rufigulaBKB15
`--RhegmatorhinaBKB15
| i. s.: R. berlepschiJT12
| R. cristataJT12
|--R. melanostictaBKB15
`--+--R. gymnopsBKB15
`--R. hoffmannsiBKB15

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[E52] Eisenmann, E. 1952. Annotated list of birds of Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117 (5): 1–62.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

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