Other Scientific Names
Corythopis torquata [BirdLife International (2004)], Corythopis torquata [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Corythopis torquata [Stotz et al. (1996)]
Ringed Antpipit (Corythopis torquatus) [XC258765]
by Jeremy Minns from Orellana: 'Yuturi Lodge', s-bank R\u00edo Napo, Ecuador (song)
Ringed Antpipit (Corythopis torquatus) [XC540294]
by from Cabo Frio camp -- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
Genus was for long placed in the family Formicariidae or together with the gnateaters (Conopophaga) in the Conopophagidae; numerous anatomical, behavioural and genetic characters, however, indicate affinities within present family, probably closest to Pseudotriccus. Forms a superspecies with Southern Antpipit (Corythopis delalandi) and the two are possibly conspecific, but differ vocally, also slightly in plumage, and ranges apparently overlap in central Brazil (upper R Xingu drainage). Subspecies intergrade broadly, and individual variation pronounced.
Proposed subspecies subtorquatus described from two specimens (one of each sex) from Amazon region of northern Bolivia, but indistinguishable from nominate in scrutiny of larger series of specimens from same region and adjacent south-eastern Peru.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
sarayacuensis Chubb, C, 1918 - Amazon Basin in south-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru.
anthoides (Pucheran, 1855) - Amazon and southern Orinoco Basins in southern Venezuela, the Guianas and Brazil (east to northern Maranhío, south to northern Goiás, northern Mato Grosso and Rondônia).
torquatus Tschudi, 1844 - Amazon Basin in east-central and south-eastern Peru, western Brazil and northern Bolivia.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet