White-eyed Tody-tyrant © wikiaves.com.br

Formerly treated in genus Euscarthmornis and later in Idioptilon, both now defunct. Was for long treated as conspecific with White-bellied Tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus griseipectus), but the two exhibit major differences in plumage and voice; vocal characters suggest that geographically isolated subspecies naumburgae may belong with that species. Eastern Amazonian populations vocally distinct from those west of R Branco and R Negro, suggesting that two distinct species may be involved. Birds from French Guiana described as subspecies rothschildi, and that name (currently synonymized with nominate) would be available for eastern form, if found to be a separate species. Boundary between nominate subspecies and flaviviridis uncertain, as vocal type of former occurs only east of R Branco and R Negro, in northern Brazil, and that of latter extends east to those rivers. Ias been proposed by some authors that the two subspecies be merged.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• zosterops (Pelzeln, 1868)   -  South-eastern Colombia (Caquetá, Vaupés), eastern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru (Loreto) through southern Venezuela (southern Amazonas) and much of Brazil north of Amazon (Amazonas, north-western Pará, Amapá) to eastern Surinam and French Guiana.
• flaviviridis (Zimmer, JT, 1940)   -  Northern Peru (central Amazonas, northern San Martí­n).
• naumburgae (J. T. Zimmer, 1945)   -  North-eastern Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte south to Alagoas).

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