The speckled spinetail (Thripophaga gutturata) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae.

[2] It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Adults have an ochraceous brown supercilium, ear coverts, and malars; the last two have dark brownish speckles.

Their lower back is a richer brown that continues with a rufescent tinge on the rump and uppertail coverts.

It occurs in southeastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, eastern Ecuador and Peru, northern Bolivia, Suriname, French Guiana, and most of western Amazonian Brazil.

[8] The speckled spinetail feeds on arthropods; cockroaches (Blattodea) and "typical bugs" (Heteroptera) dominate its diet though other insects and spiders have been recorded.

Much of its feeding is from dead leaf clusters; it also probes and gleans from live vegetation, bark, moss, epiphytes, and palm fronds.

[8][9][11] The speckled spinetail's breeding season has not been detailed though in Peru it appears to begin with nest building in August.