Pithys

Pithys is a genus of insectivorous passerine binds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.

The species in this genus are specialist ant-followers that depend on swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.

[2] The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818.

[3] The type species is the white-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons).

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