Mionectes

Mionectes is a genus of birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was erected in 1844 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis with the streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis) as the type species. ==Species== The genus contains the following seven species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Common name !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px || Streak-necked flycatcher|| Mionectes striaticollis|| Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. |- |120px ||Olive-striped flycatcher || Mionectes galbinus||Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. |- |120px ||Olive-streaked flycatcher || Mionectes olivaceus|| Costa Rica and Panama. |- |120px ||Ochre-bellied flycatcher|| Mionectes oleagineus|| southern Mexico through Central America, and South America east of the Andes as far as southern Brazil, and on Trinidad and Tobago. |- |120px ||McConnell's flycatcher|| Mionectes macconnelli|| Guiana Shield, northern Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. |- | || Sierra de Lema flycatcher|| Mionectes roraimae||southern Venezuela and the neighbouring parts of Brazil and Guiana. |- |120px || Grey-hooded flycatcher|| Mionectes rufiventris|| Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. |- |}