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Southern Chestnut

Anchoscelis haematidea

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Noctuidae

The southern chestnut-breasted wren (Cyphorhinus thoracicus) is a species of passerine bird in the wren family Troglodytidae that is found in southern Peru and the extreme northwest of Bolivia. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the northern chestnut-breasted wren (Cyphorhinus dichrous) with the English name "chestnut-breasted wren". Taxonomy The southern chestnut-breasted wren was formally described in 1844 by the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi based on a specimen collected in Peru.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 4