Automolus
Automolus is a genus of bird in the ovenbird family Furnariidae.
Taxonomy
The genus Automolus was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the taxon Sphenura sulphurascens Lichtenstein, now treated as a subspecies of the white-eyed foliage-gleaner. The name is from the Ancient Greek automolos meaning "deserter".Species
The genus contains 11 species:| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
| Automolus rufipileatus | Chestnut-crowned foliage-gleaner | Amazonia | |
| - | Automolus melanopezus | Brown-rumped foliage-gleaner | western Amazonia |
| Automolus cervinigularis | Fawn-throated foliage-gleaner | Central America | |
| - | Automolus ochrolaemus | Ochre-throated foliage-gleaner | Tumbes–Chocó–Magdalena and Amazonia |
| Automolus exsertus | Chiriqui foliage-gleaner | southern Costa Rica and Panama | |
| - | Automolus virgatus | Western woodhaunter | Nicaragua to Ecuador |
| - | Automolus subulatus | Eastern woodhaunter | Amazonia |
| Automolus infuscatus | Olive-backed foliage-gleaner | Amazonia | |
| Automolus paraensis | Para foliage-gleaner | Amazonia | |
| Automolus lammi | Pernambuco foliage-gleaner | Pernambuco coastal forests | |
| Automolus leucophthalmus | White-eyed foliage-gleaner | southeastern Brazil, Paraguay and selva misionera |
The tepui foliage-gleaner has been placed in this genus, but behavior, voice, and morphology all point to it belonging in Syndactyla, and molecular data confirmed this hypothesis.
The eastern woodhaunter was formerly placed in its own genus Hyloctistes but molecular evidence showed that it was nested in Automolus. The ruddy foliage-gleaner and the Santa Marta foliage-gleaner, formerly placed in Automolus, are actually more closely related to Clibanornis foliage-gleaners.