Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Myrmophylax

Black-throated Antbird

Myrmophylax atrothorax

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Myrmeciza atrothorax → Myrmophylax atrothorax

Genus transfer — GBIF Backbone Taxonomy uses the former name; AviList 2025 uses the current name.

Guillaume Delaitre · CC_BY_4_0

Myrmophylax atrothorax atrothorax

eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Amazonian Brazil (both banks of upper Amazon River and east of lower Rio Negro, eastward to Amapá)
Myrmophylax atrothorax maynana

north-central Peru (south of Río Marañón and west of Río Huallaga)
Myrmophylax atrothorax melanura

eastern Peru south of the Amazon River to northern Bolivia and western and central Brazil (upper regions of tributaries of the Amazon River and along lower Rio Tapajós, and eastward to south Pará and south-central Mato Grosso)
Myrmophylax atrothorax metae

central Colombia (Meta and western Guaviare)
Myrmophylax atrothorax tenebrosa

eastern Ecuador north of the Amazon River, northeastern Peru, and northern Brazil (west of lower Rio Negro)

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.