Loja tapaculo (Scytalopus androstictus)

The Loja tapaculo is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae that the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society accepted as a new species in July 2020. It had been classified as a subspecies of paramo tapaculo. It is found in the Andes of southern Ecuador (particularly Loja province, as the name indicates), reaching over the border into far northern Peru.