Tawny-crowned Pygmy Tyrant (Euscarthmus meloryphus) [XC282551]
by Marcelo Villegas from Manab\u00ed: Punta Prieta, Ecuador (dawn song)
Tawny-crowned Pygmy Tyrant (Euscarthmus meloryphus) [XC715795]
by Franco Vushurovich from Laurentino, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
Genus once placed in the family Formicariidae because of odd tarsal scutellation. Affinities within present family uncertain.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
paulus (Bangs, 1899) - North-eastern Colombia and northern Venezuela (east to Sucre, south to north-eastern Bolívar).
fulviceps Sclater, PL, 1871 - Western and south-eastern Ecuador (southern from Manabí, including coastal islands, also southern Zamora-Chinchipe) and western and northern Peru (Tumbes south to Lima, also arid Marañón Valley in Cajamarca, Amazonas and La Libertad). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Tawny-fronted Pygmy-tyrant (Euscarthmus fulviceps).
meloryphus Wied, 1831 - Eastern Brazil (Maranhío and Ceará south to Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Sul), eastern Peru (eastern Puno), eastern Bolivia (southern from Pando), northern and eastern Paraguay, north-western and north-eastern Argentina (south to Tucumán and, in east, to Córdoba and northern Buenos Aires) and Uruguay.