The rayaditos (''Aphrastura'') are a genus of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class (biology), class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the Oviparity, laying of Eggshell, hard-shelled eggs, a high Metabolism, metabolic rate, a fou ...

s in the Furnariidae, the ovenbird family.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Aphrastura'' was introduced in 1899 by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser with the thorn-tailed rayadito as the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

. The name genus name combines the

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

''aphrastos'' meaning "marvellous" with ''oura'' meaning "tail". The genus contains the following species: * Thorn-tailed rayadito, ''Aphrastura spinicauda'' * Masafuera rayadito, ''Aphrastura masafuerae'' * Subantarctic rayadito, ''Aphrastura subantarctica''

References

Bird genera Taxa named by Harry C. Oberholser Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Furnariidae-stub