Knipolegus

Knipolegus
White-winged black tyrant near Machu Picchu, Peru
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus:
F. Boie, 1826
Type species
Muscicapa cyanirostris
Vieillot, 1818

Knipolegus is a genus of birds, the black tyrants, in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was erected by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the blue-billed black tyrant as the type species.[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek knips meaning "insect" and legō meaning "to pick".[3]

Species

The genus contains the following 12 species:[4]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Blue-billed black tyrant Knipolegus cyanirostris Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Jelski's black tyrant Knipolegus signatus Peru
Plumbeous tyrant Knipolegus cabanisi southeastern Peru, western Bolivia and northern Argentina.
Cinereous tyrant Knipolegus striaticeps Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina
White-winged black tyrant Knipolegus aterrimus Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Hudson's black tyrant Knipolegus hudsoni central Argentina and winters northwards, reaching Bolivia and Paraguay.
Rufous-tailed tyrant Knipolegus poecilurus Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.
Riverside tyrant Knipolegus orenocensis Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Amazonian black tyrant Knipolegus poecilocercus Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.
Crested black tyrant Knipolegus lophotes Brazil, Uruguay and northeastern Paraguay
Velvety black tyrant Knipolegus nigerrimus Brazil
Sao Francisco black tyrant or Caatinga black tyrant Knipolegus franciscanus Brazil.

References

  1. ^ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht der ornithologischen Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen". Isis von Oken (in German). 19. Cols 969–981 [973 Fn. 2].
  2. ^ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 173.
  3. ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Knipolegus". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 July 2019.


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