Formicarius (bird)

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Formicarius
File:Formicarius rufipectus.jpg
Rufous-breasted antthrush (Formicarius rufipectus)
Scientific classification
Unrecognized taxon (fix):	Formicarius
Species
F. colma F. nigricapillus F. analis F. moniliger F. rufifrons F. rufipectus

Formicarius is a genus of passerine birds in the family Formicariidae. These birds are all found in the tropical New World, from southern Mexico south to Central America and northern South America. All are named as antthrushes, and are insectivorous forest birds. They are largely terrestrial, feeding mainly on the ground on ants and other insects.

Taxonomy

The genus Formicarius was introduced by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert in 1783 in his catalogue of the ten volumes of hand-coloured plates that had been engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet. The plates were produced to accompany Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The type species was subsequently designated as the rufous-capped antthrush (Formicarius colma) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840. The generic name Formicarius is Latin meaning "of the ant".

The genus contains six species:

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
120px	Rufous-capped antthrush	Formicarius colma	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
	Black-faced antthrush	Formicarius analis	from Honduras through Central America to Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Brazil
	Mayan antthrush (formerly considered conspecific with the black-faced antthrush)	Formicarius moniliger	southern Mexico through northwestern Honduras.
	Rufous-fronted antthrush	Formicarius rufifrons	southeastern Peru, northwestern Bolivia (Pando), and far southwestern Brazil
	Black-headed antthrush	Formicarius nigricapillus	Caribbean slope of eastern Costa Rica and both slopes of Panama to Chocó of western Colombia and Ecuador.
120px	Rufous-breasted antthrush	Formicarius rufipectus	Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.

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