Sipia
Genus of birds
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Sipia is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.
| Sipia | |
|---|---|
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| Dull-mantled antbird (Sipia laemosticta) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Sipia Hellmayr, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| Pyriglena berlepschi Hartert, 1898 | |
The genus contains four species:[1]
- Dull-mantled antbird (Sipia laemosticta)
- Magdalena antbird (Sipia palliata)
- Esmeraldas antbird (Sipia nigricauda)
- Stub-tailed antbird (Sipia berlepschi)
These species were formerly placed in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.[2] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera these four species were moved to the resurrected genus Sipia which had been introduced by the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1924.[1][3]