Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias uropygialis) - HBW 9, p. 262

French: Tyranneau à croupion fauve German: Zimtbürzel-Kleintyrann Spanish: Mosquerito Culirrufo

Taxonomy: Mecocerculus uropygialis Lawrence, 1869, Corazón, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Genus as presently constituted may be polyphyletic; objective phylogenetic analysis, using molecular characters as well as anatomical ones, is required in order to define generic limits. Anatomical evidence suggests that P. fasciatus, P. griseocapilla and P. griseiceps may be unrelated to others of genus, some or all of which possibly better placed in resurrected genus Tyranniscus. Present species was for long placed in latter. Monotypic.

Distribution: Very local in Andes of W Venezuela (Mérida), Colombia (S to Cundinamarca in E cordillera, in Cauca and Nariño in W), W & E Ecuador, and E slope in Peru (also three records on W slope), Bolivia (S to Tarija) and extreme NW Argentina (N Salta).