White-tipped Plantcutter (Phytotoma rutila) [XC707554]
by Richard E. Webster from Reserva Paraba Frente Roja (Armonia), Departamento de Cochabamba, Bolivia (song)
White-tipped Plantcutter (Phytotoma rutila) [XC471340]
by Rosendo Manuel Fraga from Middle Cerro Tunari, Cochabamba dept., Bolivia (call)
Subspecies
Genus formerly treated as constituting a separate family of uncertain affinities or, sometimes, as a subfamily within Tyrannidae. However, more recent genetic data indicate close relationship, possibly as sister-group, to a cotingid clade formed by the genera Ampelion, Doliornis and Zaratornis. Forms superspecies with Peruvian Plantcutter (Phytotoma raimondii).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
angustirostris d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 - Highlands of central and southern Bolivia (La Paz and Santa Cruz south to Tarija), and northern Argentina (around Pichanal, in northern Salta).
rutila Vieillot, 1818 - Western Paraguay (east to near R Paraguay), northern and eastern Argentina (south to Mendoza, La Pampa, Río Negro and central-eastern Chubut) and western Uruguay.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet