Double-banded Pygmy Tyrant

Lophotriccus vitiosus (Bangs & Penard, TE, 1921)

Double-banded Pygmy Tyrant, Lophotriccus vitiosus, is a tyrant flycatcher of western and north-eastern Amazonia in South America. It was first described in 1921 by Bangs and Penard. The bird is a resident of humid lowland forest, especially terra firme and secondary growth, and it is also recorded less often in várzea forest. It uses both the forest interior and the edges. In breeding areas it is known from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru and Suriname, with a disjunct range across the Amazon basin.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Breeding range

South America: w, ne Amazonia