Silvicultrix

Silvicultrix is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

Silvicultrix
Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Silvicultrix Lanyon, W, 1986
Type species
Myiobius diadema Hartlaub, 1843
Species
see text

The genus was erected by the American ornithologist Wesley E. Lanyon in 1986 with the yellow-bellied chat-tyrant (Silvicultrix diadema) as the type species.^[1]

Species

The genus contains five species:^[2]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Crowned chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix frontalis	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
	Kalinowski's chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix spodionota	Bolivia and Peru
	Golden-browed chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix pulchella	Yungas of Peru and Bolivia.
	Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix diadema	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
	Jelski's chat-tyrant	Silvicultrix jelskii	Peru and southern Ecuador.

These species were formerly included in the genus Ochthoeca.