Automolus
Genus of birds
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Automolus is a genus of bird in the ovenbird family Furnariidae.
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| Automolus | |
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| White-eyed foliage-gleaner (Automolus leucophthalmus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Furnariidae |
| Genus: | Automolus Reichenbach, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Sphenura sulphurascens White-eyed foliage-gleaner Lichtenstein, MHK, 1823 | |
Taxonomy
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
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 |
.jpg) | Automolus exsertus | Chiriqui foliage-gleaner | southern Costa Rica and Panama |
| - | Automolus virgatus | Western woodhaunter | Nicaragua to Ecuador |
| - | Automolus subulatus | Eastern woodhaunter | Amazonia |
.jpg) | 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]
