Naming
The Magdalena antbird was described in 1917 by the American ornithologist W. E. Clyde Todd as a subspecies of the dull-mantled antbird and given the trinomial name ''Myrmeciza laemosticta palliata''. Based on the results of a study of the vocal characteristics and mitochondrial DNA published in 2010, the Magdalena antbird was promoted to species status. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that the genus ''Myrmeciza'', as then defined, was polyphyletic. In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the Magdalena antbird was moved to a resurrected genus ''Sipia'' that had been introduced by the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1924.References:
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