67 urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:0EB7B745-BA33-591F-8755-8E4C5B0D1E08 Check List CheckList 1809-127X Pensoft Publishers 10.15560/14.6.1099 29668 Notes on Geographic Distribution Thamnophilidae Brazil Recent records of the Star-throated Antwren, Rhopias gularis (Spix, 1825) (Aves, Thamnophilidae), in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil Bencke Glayson A. gabencke@fzb.rs.gov.br 1 Chiarani Eduardo 2 Bianco Alexandre 3 Hasenack Walter 4 Medaglia Marcelo F. 5 Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil Curso de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Curso de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil Clube de Observadores de Aves de Porto Alegre , Urussanga, Brazil Clube de Observadores de Aves de Porto Alegre Urussanga Brazil Clube de Observadores de Aves de Porto Alegre , São Leopoldo, Brazil Clube de Observadores de Aves de Porto Alegre São Leopoldo Brazil Clube de Observadores de Aves de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil Clube de Observadores de Aves de Porto Alegre Porto Alegre Brazil

Corresponding author: Glayson A. Bencke (gabencke@fzb.rs.gov.br).

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 2018 23 11 2018 14 6 1099 1104 842BBB5B-6FE7-5C5D-8B3D-EF25A1E0CD37 1777461 11 09 2018 08 11 2018 Glayson A. Bencke, Eduardo Chiarani, Alexandre Bianco, Walter Hasenack, Marcelo F. Medaglia This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

For over 130 years, the Atlantic Forest antwren Rhopias gularis (Spix, 1825) remained known in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul from 2 undated specimens collected by Hermann von Ihering at Taquara in the early 1880s. We located 1 couple plus 2 lone females along the border with Santa Catarina in the Josafaz stream valley, municipality of Mampituba, in October 2017 and January 2018. These records confirm the present-day occurrence of R. gularis in Rio Grande do Sul and establish a new southern limit of its distribution. We briefly discuss the validity of Ihering’s record and the historical occurrence of the species at Taquara.