Erythropitta erythrogaster celebensis The Sulawesi pitta (Erythropitta celebensis) is a species of pitta.
It is endemic to Indonesia where it occurs in Sulawesi, Manterawu, and Togian Islands.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
The Sulawesi pitta was formally described in 1845 by the German naturalists Salomon Müller and Hermann Schlegel based on a specimen collected by the Dutch narualist Eltio Alegondas Forsten near Tondano on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
[2][3] The Sulawesi pitta is now placed in the genus Erythropitta that was introduced in 1854 by Charles Lucien Bonaparte.