Rufous-margined Antwren
The rufous-margined antwren (Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus) is an insectivorous bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds." It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. == Taxononomy and systematics == The rufous-margined antwren was described by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1822 and given the binomial name Myiothera rufimarginata. It is now placed in the genus Herpsilochmus which was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847. The specific epithet rufimarginatus is from the Latin rufus "rufous" and marginatus "marginned" or "bordered." The rufous-margined antwren's taxonomy is unsettled. Before 2020 the American Ornithological Society, the International Ornithological Committee, and the Clements taxonomy treated it and what is now the rusty-winged antwren (Herpsilochmus frater) as a single species, the rufous-winged antwren with the binomial H. rufimarginatus. These systems assigned it four subspecies: H. r. exiguus Nelson, 1912 H. r. frater Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1880 H. r. scapularis (zu Wied-Neuwied, 1831) H. r. rufimarginatus (Temminck, 1822) Beginning in 2020 these systems split the rufous-winged antwren into the two current species. They assigned subspecies exiguus and frater to the rusty-winged antwren and merged scapularis into rufimarginatus as the monotypic rufous-margined antwren. However, by 2018 BirdLife International's Handbook of…
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