LIOSCELINAE

Maurício, Giovanni Nachtigall, Areta, Juan Ignacio, Bornschein, Marcos Ricardo & Reis, Roberto E., 2012, Morphology-based phylogenetic analysis and classification of the family Rhinocryptidae (Aves: Passeriformes), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166 (2), pp. 377-432 : 413

SUBFAMILY LIOSCELINAE , NEW TAXON

Type genus: Liosceles Sclater, 1865

Included genus: Liosceles

Diagnosis.

Non-exclusive change:

Char. 2.1, Premaxilla with a smoothly arched nasal process; condition also present in Eleoscytalopus and some Scytalopus taxa.

In addition, the new subfamily is phylogenetically diagnosed by a combination of features that include all apomorphic states supporting the family’s node (mentioned above under the family’s diagnosis) plus the plesiomorphic states of the transformation series that supports the subfamily Rhinocryptinae : a wide nasal process of the premaxilla (char. 3.0), a condition independently appearing in Acropternis , Pteroptochos , and Eugralla due to a reversal from state 1 to 0 in these genera; manubrium with long processes (char. 40.0), a condition aquired by reversal from state 1 to 0 in Rhinocrypta , Teledromas , and Scelorchilus ; scapula with a relatively small acromion (char. 46.0); and fossa pneumotricipitalis of the humerus totally open, i.e. internal osseous wall absent (char. 47.0).

Genus: Liosceles Sclater, 1865 (type species: Pteroptochus thoracicus Sclater, 1865 )

Included species: Liosceles thoracicus (Sclater, 1865)

Diagnosis.

As for Lioscelinae .