Ihering's antwren (Myrmotherula iheringi) is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds".

[2] Ihering's antwren has three subspecies, the nominate M. i. iheringi (Snethlage, 1914), M. i. heteroptera (Todd, 1927), and M. i. oreni (Miranda, Aleixo, Whitney, Silveira, Guilherme, MPD Santos & MPC Schneider, 2013).

[4] The species' English name and specific epithet honor Hermann von Ihering, a German ornithologist who worked mainly in Brazil.

Adult males of all three subspecies have dark gray upperparts with a hidden white patch between the shoulders.

Females of subspecies M. i. heteroptera have an ochraceous tinge to their upperparts and buff tips to their wing coverts.

Subspecies M. i. oreni is found in east-central and southeastern Peru, extreme northwestern Bolivia, and far western Brazil's Acre state.

It forages singly, in pairs, or in family groups, and usually as part of a mixed-species feeding flock.

The songs of the three subspecies of Ihering's antwren differ somewhat, but are generally "a countable series of intense, downslurred 'peer' notes".

"More surveys are needed in order better to assess the species’ distribution and population status in Brazil.