Black-and-white antbird


The black-and-white antbird is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is monotypic within the genus Myrmochanes.
It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
The black-and-white antbird was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1866 and given the binomial name Hypocmenis hemileucus.