Pithys

Pithys is a genus of insectivorous passerine binds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.

Pithys
White-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Pithys Vieillot, 1818
Type species
Pithys leucops[1] = Pithys albifrons Vieillot, 1818

The species in this genus are specialist ant-followers that depend on swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.^[2]

The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818.^[3] The type species is the white-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons).^[4] It contains two species:^[5]

Species

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Pithys albifrons	White-plumed antbird	Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana
	Pithys castaneus	White-masked antbird	Peru.

References

1. "Thamnophilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
2. Zimmer, K.; Isler, M.L. (2018) [2003]. del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Typical Antbirds (Thamnophilidae)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. doi:10.2173/bow.thamno3.01. S2CID 216492154. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
3. Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1818). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc (in French). Vol. 24. Paris: Deterville. p. 112. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20211.
4. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 245.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 February 2018.