Wing-banded wren
The wing-banded wren is a species of bird in the family Troglodytidae.
It is found in Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests.Taxonomy
The wing-banded wren was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Formicarius bambla in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The wing-banded wren is now of four species placed the genus Microcerculus that was introduced by the English naturalist Osbert Salvin in 1861. The genus name is from the Ancient Greek mikros meaning "small" and kerkos meaning "tail". The specific bambla is a homophone from the French bande blanche meaning "white band".
Three subspecies are recognised:
- M. b. albigularis – east Ecuador, east Peru and northwest Brazil
- M. b. caurensis von Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902 – east Colombia and south Venezuela
- M. b. bambla – east Venezuela, the Guianas and north Brazil
