Wrens (Troglodytidae)

White-breasted Wood-wren (Henicorhina leucosticta) - HBW 10, p. 442

French: Troglodyte à poitrine blanche German: Waldzaunkönig Spanish: Cucarachero Pechiblanco
Other common names: Lowland Wood-wren

Taxonomy: Cyphorhinus leucosticta Cabanis, 1847, Guyana.
Has been thought to form a superspecies with H. leucophrys, but geographical and altitudinal overlap too extensive to justify such treatment. Possibly represents three distinct species, with separation of prostheleuca and pittieri groups. Race prostheleuca intergrades with smithei in SE Mexico (extreme S Quintana Roo) and N Belize. Thirteen subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

decolorata A. R. Phillips, 1986 - E Mexico (San Luis Potosí S to N Veracruz and N Puebla).
prostheleuca (P. L. Sclater, 1857) - S & E Mexico (from Veracruz and N Chiapas) E to Belize.
smithei Dickerman, 1973 - S part of Yucatán Peninsula S to Guatemala.

See all 13 subspecies

decolorata A. R. Phillips, 1986 - E Mexico (San Luis Potosí S to N Veracruz and N Puebla).
prostheleuca (P. L. Sclater, 1857) - S & E Mexico (from Veracruz and N Chiapas) E to Belize.
smithei Dickerman, 1973 - S part of Yucatán Peninsula S to Guatemala.
tropaea Bangs & J. L. Peters, 1927 - Honduras and Nicaragua.
costaricensis Dickerman, 1973 - N & E Costa Rica.
pittieri Cherrie, 1893 - SW Costa Rica and W Panama.
alexandri A. R. Phillips, 1986 - E Panama and immediately adjacent NW Colombia.
darienensis Hellmayr, 1921 - E Panama (Darién) and W Colombia (S to Baudo Mts).
inornata Hellmayr, 1903 - W Colombia (S of R San Juan) S to extreme NW Ecuador.
albilateralis Chapman, 1917 - W Colombia (lower Cauca Valley, middle Magdalena Valley).
eucharis Bangs, 1910 - W Colombia (Valle).
leucosticta (Cabanis, 1847) - E & S Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana (one record), and N Brazil (S to N Pará).
hauxwelli Chubb, 1920 - tropical zone of upper Amazonia in S Colombia (S from Meta and Vaupés), E Ecuador and NE Peru.