- Microrhopias quixensis
Identification
Female, Subspecies virgatus
Photo © by Stanley Jones
Canopy Tower, Soberania National Park, Semaphore Hill, Panamá Province, Panama, December 2017
Photo © by Stanley Jones
Canopy Tower, Soberania National Park, Semaphore Hill, Panamá Province, Panama, December 2017
11–12 cm (4¼-4¾ in)
Male
- Black
- Broad white wing bar
- White spotted wing coverts
Female
- Slate above
- Rufous below
- White spotted wing coverts
Juvenile
- Soot brown upperparts
- Dull cinnamon underparts
Distribution
Mexico through Central America to Panama and along western Colombia to western Ecuador, and disjunct from that a second South American population centered in Brazil to Peru and eastern Ecuador and east to the Guianas but not found in Venezuela.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Ten subspecies are recognized[1]:
- M. q. boucardi: Tropical south-eastern Mexico to Belize, eastern Guatemala, northern Honduras
- M. q. virgatus: South-eastern Honduras and eastern Nicaragua to Costa Rica and Panama
- M. q. consobrina: Eastern Panama to western Colombia and western Ecuador
- M. q. microstictus: Southern Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and north-eastern Amazonian Brazil
- M. q. quixensis: Southern Colombia to eastern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru
- M. q. intercedens: Lowlands of central Peru and south-western Amazonian Brazil
- M. q. nigriventris: Eastern slope of Andes of central Peru (San Mart¡n to northern Cusco)
- M. q. albicauda: South-eastern Peru (Cusco, Madre de Dios, Puno) and adjacent northern Bolivia (Pando)
- M. q. bicolor: South-central Amazonian Brazil
- M. q. emiliae: Amazonian Brazil (River Tapajos to River Tocantins, northern Mato Grosso)
Habitat
They are found in the middle storey of humid lowland and foothill evergreen forests and forest borders.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists of a variety of insects and arthropods, including spiders.
Breeding
The nest is cup shaped and made from plant material and dead leaves. The 2 brown spotted, white eggs are incubated by both parents who also both care for the young.
Vocalisation
Call: whistled peep
Song: chee chee chee-che-che-chr,r,r,r.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2018)
- Wikipedia
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Dot-winged Antwren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Dot-winged_Antwren
