Tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae)

Long-tailed Tapaculo (Scytalopus micropterus) - HBW 8, p. 773

French: Mérulaxe microptère German: Nördlicher Schieferrückentapaculo Spanish: Churrín Colilargo
Other common names: Equatorial Rufous-vented Tapaculo

Taxonomy: Agathopus micropterus P. L. Sclater, 1858, Río Napo, Ecuador.
Formerly treated as a race of S. femoralis; the two taxa are, however, now regarded as sister-species. Monotypic.

Distribution: Colombia in upper Magdalena Valley, and from Cundinamarca S on Amazonian slope to extreme N Peru.

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