Akletos

Akletos is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.

Akletos
Goeldi's antbird (Akletos goeldii)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Akletos Dunajewski, 1948
Type species
Akletos peruvianus[1] Dunajewski, 1948

The genus contains two species:^[2]

• White-shouldered antbird (Akletos melanoceps)
• Goeldi's antbird (Akletos goeldii)

The two species were formerly placed in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.^[3] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera these species were moved to the resurrected genus Akletos which had been introduced by the Polish ornithologist Andrzej Dunajewski in 1948.^[2][4][5]