Appearance
The black-spotted bare-eye is 16.5–17.5 cm in length and weighs 42–51 g. The sexes are alike.This species is a specialist ant-follower that relies upon swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.
Naming
The black-spotted bare-eye was described by the French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Frédéric de Lafresnaye in 1837 and given the binomial name "Myothera nigro-maculata". The specific epithet combines the Latin words "niger" for "black" and "maculatus " for "spotted".There are four subspecies:
⤷ "Phlegopsis nigromaculata nigromaculata" – southeast Colombia, east Ecuador, east Peru, north Bolivia and southwest Amazonian Brazil
⤷ "Phlegopsis nigromaculata bowmani" Ridgway, 1888 – south central Amazonian Brazil and central Bolivia
⤷ "Phlegopsis nigromaculata confinis" Zimmer, JT, 1932 – east central Amazonian Brazil
⤷ "Phlegopsis nigromaculata paraensis" Hellmayr, 1904 – northeast Brazil south of the Amazon
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