Myrmoborus

Myrmoborus is a genus of passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.

The genus was erected by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine in 1860 with the white-browed antbird as the type species. The genus name is a combination of two Greek words: murmos, meaning "ant" and -boros (from "bibros"), meaning "-devouring".

The genus contains five species:


 * White-browed antbird, Myrmoborus leucophrys (Tschudi, 1844)
 * Ash-breasted antbird, Myrmoborus lugubris (Cabanis, 1847)
 * Black-tailed antbird, Myrmoborus melanurus (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1866)
 * Black-faced antbird, Myrmoborus myotherinus (Spix, 1825)
 * White-lined antbird, Myrmoborus lophotes (Hellmayr & Seilern, 1914)

The white-lined antbird was previously placed in the genus Percnostola but a genetic study published in 2013 found that it is embedded within Myrmoborus.