Gymnopithys
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Gymnopithys is a genus of passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.
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Gymnopithys | |
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Bicolored antbird (Gymnopithys bicolor) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Gymnopithys Bonaparte, 1857 |
Type species | |
Turdus pectoralis[1] Latham, 1790 |
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The species in this genus are specialist ant-followers that depend on swarms of army ants to flush arthropods out of the leaf litter.[2]