Twistwing

Twistwings are two species of Tyrant flycatchers from the genus Cnipodectes. They are restricted to northern and western South America and southern Central America. The genus was monotypic until a new species, Cnipodectes superrufus, was described from Peru and Bolivia in 2007.^[1] Their common name refers to the modified primaries. The genus contains two species.^[2]

Twistwings
Brownish twistwing (Cnipodectes subbrunneus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Cnipodectes P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1873
Species
2, see text

Species

Genus Cnipodectes – P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1873 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
brownish flycatcher, Brownish twistwing	Cnipodectes subbrunneus (Sclater, PL, 1860)	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Rufous twistwing	Cnipodectes superrufus Lane, Servat, Valqui & Lambert, 2007	south-eastern Peru, northern Bolivia and far western Brazil	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU