Tepui flycatcher
The Tepui flycatcher or Sierra de Lema flycatcher is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in highland areas, including the table-top mountains, of southern Venezuela and the neighbouring parts of Brazil and Guiana. Its natural habitats are moist montane forests.
The Tepui flycatcher was described by the English ornithologist Charles Chubb in 1919 as a subspecies of the ochre-bellied flycatcher. He coined the trinomial name Pipromorpha oleaginea roraimae and specified the type location as Mount Roraima in the southeastern corner of Venezuela. The specific epithet roraimae is a Latinized form of Mount Roraima. It was treated as a subspecies of McConnell's flycatcher by the American ornithologist Clyde Todd in 1921. It was split from the McConnell's flycatcher based on a study published in 2014 that showed that the two taxa differed in habitat choice, vocalization and display behaviour.
