Naming
The southern chestnut-tailed antbird was originally described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1857 and given the binomial name ''Myrmeciza emimelaena''. 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 southern chestnut-tailed antbird and the northern chestnut-tailed antbird were moved to a newly erected genus ''Sciaphylax''.References:
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