Terenura
Genus of birds
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Terenura is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.
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| Terenura | |
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| Streak-capped antwren (Terenura maculata) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Terenura Cabanis & Heine, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Myiothera maculata zu Wied-Neuwied, 1831 | |
The genus was erected by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine in 1860 with the streak-capped antwren as the type species.[1][2] The name of the genus comes from the Ancient Greek words terēn for "soft" and oura for "tail".[3]
The genus contains two species:[4]
- Streak-capped antwren (Terenura maculata)
- Orange-bellied antwren (Terenura sicki)
The genus formerly included an additional four species but these were moved to the newly erected genus Euchrepomis based on the results of a genetic study published in 2012.[5]
