Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Social Flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis) - HBW 9, p. 407

French: Tyran sociable German: Rotscheitel-Maskentyrann Spanish: Bienteveo Sociable
Other common names: Vermilion-crowned Flycatcher

Taxonomy: Muscicapa similis Spix, 1825, mouth of River Madeira, Brazil.
Morphological and behavioural evidence suggests genus most closely related to Legatus; nesting behaviour links with Pitangus. Molecular data support clade consisting of present species and M. cayanensis as sister-group to one formed by M. granadensis and M. luteiventris. Present species may be better split: race grandis, with restricted range, differs vocally from widespread nominate; N races primulus, hesperis and texensis may form a separate species. Proposed races connivens (Urubamba) and fiedleri (Ucayali) includ.. View all taxonomy...

Subspecies and Distribution:

primulus van Rossem, 1930 - W Mexico (S Sonora S to N Sinaloa).
hesperis A. R. Phillips, 1966 - W Mexico (C Sinaloa and S Zacatecas E to SW Puebla, S at least to SE Oaxaca).
texensis (Giraud, 1841) - E & S Mexico (from SW Tamaulipas S through Yucatán Peninsula), Belize, much of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica (except SW).

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primulus van Rossem, 1930 - W Mexico (S Sonora S to N Sinaloa).
hesperis A. R. Phillips, 1966 - W Mexico (C Sinaloa and S Zacatecas E to SW Puebla, S at least to SE Oaxaca).
texensis (Giraud, 1841) - E & S Mexico (from SW Tamaulipas S through Yucatán Peninsula), Belize, much of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica (except SW).
columbianus Cabanis & Heine, 1859 - SW Costa Rica and Panama, N coast of Colombia (S from Caribbean lowlands through Magdalena Valley to Huila) and N Venezuela (E to Sucre, S to to N Amazonas and N Bolívar).
grandis Lawrence, 1871 - W Ecuador (S from W Esmeraldas) and extreme NW Peru (lowlands E of Andes and Pacific slope in Tumbes).
similis (Spix, 1825) - E Colombia E of E Andes (S from Norte de Santander), SE Venezuela (Amazonas, S Bolívar), French Guiana, E Ecuador, E & C Peru, Amazonian Brazil (except most drainages of R Tocantins and R Xingu) and N Boliva (S to Cochabamba and N Santa Cruz).
pallidiventris Pinto, 1935 - E Brazil (E Pará E to Paraíba, S to N Rio Grande do Sul), E Paraguay (W at least to Caaguazú) and NE Argentina (Misiones).