Genus Tyrannidectes Mironov, 2008

Type species: Tyrannidectes berlai Mironov 2008 (in Mironov et al. 2008), by original designation.

The genus, including the new species described below, incorporates 11 species associated with Neotropical passerines of the families Corvidae, Furnariidae, Rhinocryptidae, Turdidae, and Tyrannidae (Trouessart 1885; Černý 1974; Hernandes & Valim 2005, 2006; Mironov et al. 2008; Valim & Hernandes 2008; Mironov & González-Acuña 2011, 2015). It is very similar to Amerodectes, but unlike the latter, setae sR III are absent from trochanters III.