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Black-bellied Antwren
Formicivora melanogaster Pelzeln, 1868
Thamnophilidae — Antbirds
Black-bellied Antwren, Formicivora melanogaster, is a passerine antbird breeding in eastern and central South America, including Brazil and neighbouring Paraguay and Bolivia. It was described by Pelzeln in 1868. The species lives in the understorey and middle layers of tropical deciduous forest, gallery forest, caatinga scrub, the transition between caatinga and cerrado, and mata-de-cipó. It is the more southerly of two subspecies, with the other occurring in north-eastern Brazil. The nominate form ranges from central Brazil west into south-eastern Bolivia and far northern Paraguay.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thamnophilidae — Antbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: e Brazil and c SA
