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The Immaculate Antbird (Myrmeciza immaculata) is a species of antbird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found at low levels in humid forests in Costa Rica, Panama, western and northern Colombia, western Venezuela, and western Ecuador. The species feeds on insects, and regularly regularly follows swarms of army ants in order to catch prey flushed by the swarms, but it is not an obligate ant-follower like some species of antbirds. The Immaculate Antbird is strongly sexually dichromatic: The male has an entirely black plumage, while the female has a rufous-brown plumage and a black mask. Both sexes have a blue patch of skin around the eyes. Source: Wikipedia
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Thamnophilidae
Genus:
Hafferia
Scientific:
Hafferia immaculata
Citation:
(Lafresnaye, 1845)
Reference:
Rev.Zool. p.340
Protonym:
Thamnophilus immaculatus
Avibase ID:
F076888527374A83
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/F0768885
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 561376
Geographic range:
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Immaculate Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Immaculate Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Immaculate Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Immaculate Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Immaculate Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Immaculate Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Immaculate Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Immaculate Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Clements 6th edition (version 6.8 incl. 2013 revisions): Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
Clements 6th edition (version 6.9 incl. 2014 revisions): Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2015: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2016: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2017: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2018: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2019: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
eBird version 1.54: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
eBird version 1.55: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
eBird version 2015: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
eBird version 2016: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
eBird version 2017: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
eBird version 2018: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
eBird version 2019: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3: Immaculate Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4: Immaculate Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.2: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.3: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.4: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.2: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.3: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.4: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.1: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.2: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.3: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.4: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.2: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.3: Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 8.1: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 8.2: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 9.1: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Blue-lored Antbird ( Percnostola immaculata) [version 1] |
James Lee Peters (original): Myrmeciza immaculata immaculata [version 1] |
James Lee Peters (2nd edition): Myrmeciza immaculata immaculata [version 1] |
South American Classification Committee (17/03/2013): Andean Immaculate-Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
South American Classification Committee (9/02/2014): Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
South American Classification Committee (16/02/2015): Blue-lored Antbird ( Myrmeciza immaculata) [version 1] |
South American Classification Committee (28/07/2016): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
South American Classification Committee (22/04/2017): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
South American Classification Committee (4/06/2018): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
South American Classification Committee (6/06/2019): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
South American Classification Committee (20/02/2020): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
South American Classification Committee (8/06/2020): Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Working Group Avian Checklists, version 0.01: Blue-lored Antbird ( Hafferia immaculata) [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: full species (sometimes nominal subspecies)
This taxon is considered a subspecies of
Hafferia [immaculata or zeledoni]
(sensu lato) by some authors
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