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Automolus
White-eyed foliage-gleaner (Automolus leucophthalmus)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Genus: Automolus
Reichenbach, 1853
Type species
Sphenura sulphurascens
White-eyed foliage-gleaner

Automolus is a genus of bird in the ovenbird family Furnariidae.

Taxonomy

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The genus Automolus was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the taxon Sphenura sulphurascens Lichtenstein, now treated as a subspecies of the white-eyed foliage-gleaner.[1][2] The name is from the Ancient Greek automolos meaning "deserter".[3]

Species

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The genus contains 11 species:[4]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
  Automolus rufipileatus Chestnut-crowned foliage-gleaner Amazonia
Automolus melanopezus Brown-rumped foliage-gleaner western Amazonia
  Automolus cervinigularis Fawn-throated foliage-gleaner Central America
Automolus ochrolaemus Ochre-throated foliage-gleaner Tumbes–Chocó–Magdalena and Amazonia
  Automolus exsertus Chiriqui foliage-gleaner southern Costa Rica and Panama
Automolus virgatus Western woodhaunter Nicaragua to Ecuador
Automolus subulatus Eastern woodhaunter Amazonia
  Automolus infuscatus Olive-backed foliage-gleaner Amazonia (north of Madeira River)
  Automolus paraensis Para foliage-gleaner Amazonia (south of Madeira River)
  Automolus lammi Pernambuco foliage-gleaner Pernambuco coastal forests
  Automolus leucophthalmus White-eyed foliage-gleaner southeastern Brazil, Paraguay and selva misionera

The tepui foliage-gleaner has been placed in this genus, but behavior, voice, and morphology all point to it belonging in Syndactyla,[5] and molecular data confirmed this hypothesis.[6]

The eastern woodhaunter was formerly placed in its own genus Hyloctistes but molecular evidence showed that it was nested in Automolus.[7] The ruddy foliage-gleaner and the Santa Marta foliage-gleaner, formerly placed in Automolus, are actually more closely related to Clibanornis foliage-gleaners.[7]

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