Knipolegus is a genus of birds, the black tyrants, in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
The genus was erected by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the blue-billed black tyrant as the type species.[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek knips meaning "insect" and legō meaning "to pick".[3]
Species
The genus contains the following 12 species:[4]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Blue-billed black tyrant | Knipolegus cyanirostris | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. |
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Jelski's black tyrant | Knipolegus signatus | Peru |
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Plumbeous tyrant | Knipolegus cabanisi | southeastern Peru, western Bolivia and northern Argentina. |
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Cinereous tyrant | Knipolegus striaticeps | Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina |
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White-winged black tyrant | Knipolegus aterrimus | Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. |
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Hudson's black tyrant | Knipolegus hudsoni | central Argentina and winters northwards, reaching Bolivia and Paraguay. |
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Rufous-tailed tyrant | Knipolegus poecilurus | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. |
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Riverside tyrant | Knipolegus orenocensis | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. |
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Amazonian black tyrant | Knipolegus poecilocercus | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. |
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Crested black tyrant | Knipolegus lophotes | Brazil, Uruguay and northeastern Paraguay |
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Velvety black tyrant | Knipolegus nigerrimus | Brazil |
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Sao Francisco black tyrant or Caatinga black tyrant | Knipolegus franciscanus | Brazil. |
References
- ^ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht der ornithologischen Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen". Isis von Oken (in German). 19. Cols 969–981 [973 Fn. 2].
- ^ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 173.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Knipolegus". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
