White-shouldered Antbird (Akletos melanoceps)

Family
Thamnophilidae (Typical Antbirds)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Spix, 1825)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and swamp forest. From sea-level - 450 m, occasionally up to 600 m.

Range (Guide)

Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

South-eastern Colombia (Meta, Caquet�, Putumayo, southern Amazonas), eastern Ecuador, north-eastern and east-central Peru (Loreto, Amazonas, northern Ucayali) and western Amazonian Brazil (east to R Japur� and to both banks of R Juru�).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (33)...)

White-shouldered Antbird (Akletos melanoceps) [XC435899]
by Jerome Fischer from Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Rio Javar\u00ed, AM, Brazil (song)

White-shouldered Antbird (Akletos melanoceps) [XC742805]
by id from Sani Lodge, Sucumb\u00edos, Ecuador (song)

Subspecies
Genus appears not to represent a monophyletic grouping, but traditional arrangement maintained pending further phylogenetic study. Considered closely related to Goeldi's Antbird (Akletos goeldii), with similarities in morphology and voice, but differences in location of hidden white patches and possibly in nest architecture may indicate more distant relationship. The two appear to be sympatric in Brazil along upper R Juru� (Acre). Both species and Plumbeous Antbird (Myrmelastes hyperythrus), Sooty Antbird (Hafferia fortis) and Blue-lored Antbird (Hafferia immaculata) often thought to form a species group on basis of large size, but more work needed in order to confirm a close relationship among them.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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