Knipolegus
White-winged black tyrant near Machu Picchu, Peru
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Knipolegus
F. Boie, 1826
Type species
Muscicapa cyanirostris
Vieillot, 1818

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]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Blue-billed black tyrantKnipolegus cyanirostrisArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Jelski's black tyrantKnipolegus signatussouthern Ecuador to northwestern Argentina.
Plumbeous tyrantKnipolegus cabanisisoutheastern Peru, western Bolivia and northern Argentina.
Cinereous tyrantKnipolegus striaticepsBolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina
White-winged black tyrantKnipolegus aterrimusArgentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Hudson's black tyrantKnipolegus hudsonicentral Argentina and winters northwards, reaching Bolivia and Paraguay.
Rufous-tailed tyrantKnipolegus poecilurusBolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.
Riverside tyrantKnipolegus orenocensisBrazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Amazonian black tyrantKnipolegus poecilocercusBrazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.
Crested black tyrantKnipolegus lophotesBrazil, Uruguay and northeastern Paraguay
Velvety black tyrantKnipolegus nigerrimusBrazil
Sao Francisco black tyrant or Caatinga black tyrantKnipolegus franciscanusBrazil.

References

  1. ↑ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht der ornithologischen Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen". Isis von Oken (in German). 19. Cols 969–981 [973 Fn. 2].
  2. ↑ Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 173.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 July 2019.


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