Typical Antbirds (Thamnophilidae)
Spot-winged Antshrike (Pygiptila stellaris) - HBW 8, p. 565
French: Batara étoilé
German: Fleckenflügel-Ameisenwürger
Spanish: Batará Estrellado
Taxonomy: Thamnophilus stellaris Spix, 1825, Pará, Brazil.
Relationships uncertain. Genetic studies indicate that genus is not closely related to Thamnophilus, but perhaps closest to the “stipple-throated assemblage” of Myrmotherula antwrens; it is, nevertheless, maintained in its traditional position in the taxonomic sequence, pending further study. Described plumage variation of forms maculipennis (S Colombia and NE Peru) and purusiana (W Brazil) appears to be clinal; these forms, therefore, merged with nominate, but further study required. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- occipitalis J. T. Zimmer, 1932 - S Venezuela (W & S Bolívar, Amazonas), N Brazil (N Amazonas, Roraima, NW Pará) and adjacent extreme E Colombia, and NE & extreme S Guyana, coastal Surinam and, locally, W & C French Guiana.
- stellaris (Spix, 1825) - extreme S Colombia (near base of Andes), E Ecuador and NE & E Peru E through S Amazonian Brazil (S to Rondônia, N Mato Grosso, S Pará, W Maranhão), and S to NW & NE Bolivia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird taking a bath in a tree hollow Locality Sani Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador
Juan Sanabria 1 April 2006 2 years ago 33 sec 2.9 -
A male in the deep of the forest Locality Sani Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador
Juan Sanabria 1 April 2006 2 years ago 29 sec 2.3
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A male on a branch.
Locality Mitú, Vaupés Department, Colombia (ssp occipitalis)
Nick Athanas 8 June 2011 34 weeks ago 3.7
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Recording of the song. Locality Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Mato Grosso State, Brazil
(ssp stellaris)
Bradley Davis 5 April 2004 2 years ago 0
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