Cercomacroides serva (Sclater, 1858)

Cavarzere, Vagner & Silveira, Luis F., 2024, Integrative taxonomy of Cercomacroides serva (Sclater, 1858) demonstrates the validity of C. hypomelaena (Sclater, 1890) comb. nov. (Aves: Thamnophilidae), Vertebrate Zoology 74, pp. 235-247 : 235

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Cercomacroides serva (Sclater, 1858)
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Cercomacroides serva (Sclater, 1858)

Northwestern black antbird (suggested English name)

Chororó-preto-do-noroeste (suggested Portuguese name)

Chresonymy.

Pyriglena serva Sclater, 1858, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 26: 66. Rio Napo, in Ecuador.

Cercomacra serva - Salvadori and Festa (1899), Bollettino dei musei di zoologia ed anatomia comparata della Università di Torino 14(362): 30.

Cercomacra tyrannina (sic) atrogularis Lletget, 1918, Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 18: 341. Rio Napo.

Cercomacroides serva - Tello et al. (2014), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170: 555.

Syntypes.

BMNH 1889.9.20.449 (male) and 1889.9.20.450 (female). Napo, Eastern Ecuador.

Diagnosis.

Males are entirely black, except for the white interscapular patch and fimbriae on the outer wing coverts. Females with grayish brown upperparts, which are concolorous with the eyebrows, a white interscapular patch, and a dark brown tail, and yellowish-brown primaries, an orange belly, concolorous with the auriculars and fimbriae on the outer wing coverts. The loudsong is Type 1.

Distribution.

It is distributed north of the Marañon River in Peru, north to eastern Ecuador and southern Colombia, with the Andes serving as its westernmost range.