Amerodectes Valim and Hernandes, 2010

Type species

Proctophyllodes (Pterodectes) gracilis Trouessart, 1885, by original designation.

Amerodectes currently includes 40 described species from representatives of 10 passerine families (eight Oscines: Fringillidae, Thraupidae, Icteridae, Mimidae, Parulidae, Passerellidae, Troglodytidae, Turdidae; and two Suboscines: Furnariidae and Tyrannidae) (Mironov and Galloway 2021). In Brazil, 12 Amerodectes species have been reported: A. bilineatus (Berla, 1958), A. geothlypis (Berla, 1973), A. gracilis (Trouessart, 1885), A. longifuscus Hernandes and Pedroso, 2016, A. maculatus (Černý, 1974), A. molothrus (Mironov, 2008), A. nordestensis (Berla, 1958), A. paroariae (Mironov, 2008), A. storkani (Černý, 1974), A. tangarae (Mironov, 2008), A. thraupicola (Černý, 1974) and A. turdinus (Berla, 1959) (Trouessart 1885; Berla 1958, 1959, 1973; Černy 1974; Valim and Hernandes 2006; Mironov et al. 2008; Valim and Hernandes 2008, 2010; Hernandes et al. 2016; Hernandes and Flechtmann 2020).