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Buff-banded Tyrannulet
Mecocerculus hellmayri Berlepsch, 1907
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Buff-banded Tyrannulet, Mecocerculus hellmayri, is a passerine in the Tyrannidae family and breeds in South America from south-east Peru to north-west Argentina. It was described by Berlepsch in 1907. It is a monotypic species, and it shares a superspecies relationship with the White-tailed Tyrannulet. Its range runs through humid montane evergreen forest in the subtropical zone, especially mossy cloudforest, and also Podocarpus forest. In Bolivia it occurs between 1,100 and 2,600 m, and in Argentina between 1,500 and 2,300 m.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: se Peru to nw Argentina
