| Moustached Antwren | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Myrmotherula |
| Species: | M. ignota |
| Binomial name | |
| Myrmotherula ignota Griscom, 1929 |
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The Moustached Antwren (Myrmotherula ignota) is a species of small Neotropical bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It has two allopatric subspecies, both sometimes considered separate monotypic species: The Griscom's Antwren (M. (i.) ignota) is found the Chocó of north-western Ecuador, western Colombia and eastern Panama, and the Short-billed Antwren (M. (ignota) obscura) is found in the Amazon of north-eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, south-eastern Colombia and north-western Brazil. The former has sometimes been considered conspecific with the Pygmy Antwren, but based on voices it has been recommended treating ignota and obscura as a subspecies of a single species.[1] Both are found in the sub-canopy of humid lowland forests.