Other Scientific Names
Percnostola macrolopha (Male)
Other Names (World)
White-lined Antbird, Rufous-crested Antbird
Family
Thamnophilidae (Typical Antbirds)
Size
14 cm
First Described (Guide)
(Hellmayr & Seilern, 1914)
Habitat
Understorey of seasonally flooded forest and transitional forest, usually characterised by the presence of Cecropia, Ochroma and Erythrina trees. From sea-level - 750 m, occasionally up to 1,450 m.
Extreme south-western Amazonian Brazil (western Acre), south-eastern Peru (eastern Junín, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Puno) and north-western Bolivia (Pando, northern La Paz).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status NT
Habitat destruction and degradation due to accelerating deforestation is the main threat.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
White-lined Antbird (Myrmoborus lophotes) [XC556429]
by Jacob Wijpkema from Ramal do Noca, Brazil (canto)
White-lined Antbird (Myrmoborus lophotes) [XC253169]
by Edson Guilherme from Villa Carmen Research Station, Peru (song)
Subspecies
Relationships uncertain. Possibly closest to Black-headed Antbird (Percnostola rufifrons), or alternatively perhaps not closely related to any other members of genus. Original description of species almost certainly based on a subadult male, having female-like plumage. Adult male described much later, as a separate species "Percnostola macrolopha", and only relatively recently realized to be adult male of present species.