Drymophila



Drymophila is a bird genus in the antbird family (Thamnophilidae). It is a relative of the typical antwrens.

Species

 * Ferruginous Antbird, Drymophila ferruginea
 * Bertoni's Antbird, Drymophila rubricollis
 * Rufous-tailed Antbird, Drymophila genei
 * Ochre-rumped Antbird, Drymophila ochropyga
 * Dusky-tailed Antbird, Drymophila malura
 * Scaled Antbird, Drymophila squamata
 * Striated Antbird, Drymophila devillei
 * Klages's Antbird, Drymophila klagesi
 * Streak-headed Antbird, Drymophila striaticeps
 * Santa Marta Antbird, Drymophila hellmayri
 * East Andean Antbird / Long-tailed Antbird, Drymophila caudata

Range
Six of the Drymophila species are associated with regions of southeastern Brazil; two of these - Bertoni's and Dusky-tailed Antbird - also range into eastern Paraguay and extreme northeastern Argentina.

Even at their highest diversity in Brazil's Mata Atlântica, the species are almost completely parapatric, in some cases like the Dusky-tailed and Scaled Antbird even to exclusive habitat preferences. Of course, the rampant deforestation in that region may obscure that there has been more overlap in the past. In any case, habitat fragments strongly tend to hold at most a single species.

D. devillei, the Striated Antbird, is a species of the southwestern quadrant of the Amazon Basin, and a disjunct population lives in north-western Ecuador and adjacent parts of Colombia. D. caudata, the Long-tailed Antbird, is a species of humid highlands, ranging through the Andes from western Bolivia to north-western Venezuela, with disjunct populations in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Serranía del Perijá and Venezuelan Coastal Range.