Phlegopsis

Taxonomy

The pale-faced bare-eye, sometimes known as the pale-faced antbird, has often been placed in the monotypic genus Skutchia, but based on genetic evidence it should be placed in Phlegopsis, and this treatment was adopted by the SACC in 2010. Based on a single specimen a fourth species, the Argus bare-eye (P. barringeri) has been proposed, but it is a hybrid between P. erythroptera and P. nigromaculata.

The genus contains three species:

• Reddish-winged bare-eye (Phlegopsis erythroptera)
• Black-spotted bare-eye (Phlegopsis nigromaculata)
• Pale-faced bare-eye (Phlegopsis borbae)