Distribution

Plain Xenops is widely distributed from southern Mexico south to northern Argentina and southern Brazil. They occur on both slopes of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador and then extend from the eastern slope, distributing widely into Venezuela, Guayana, Suriname, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia and northern and central Brazil. A large gap interrupts their distribution in Brazil, picking up again along the Atlantic coast in northeastern Brazil in Paraiba and south to eastern Paraguay and northern Argentina.

Plain Xenops primarily occurs in the lowlands, up to 1000 m in Mexico and northern Central America (Howell and Webb 1995), to 1100 m on the Caribbean slope in Costa Rica and to 1500 m on the Pacific slope (Stiles and Skutch 1989), to 1800 m in Colombia (Hilty and Brown 1986), to 2200 m (but usually below 1500 m) in Venezuela (Hilty 2003), up to 1300 m (but mostly below 900 m) in Ecuador (Ridgely and Greenfield 2001a), to 1400 m in Peru (Schulenberg et al. 2010), and to 1300 m in Bolivia (Hennessey et al. 2003).

Plain Xenops do not occur outside of the Americas.

Plain Xenops are resident in tropical lowland forest (both in terra firme and in varzéa forests), in tall second growth, and in semideciduous forests (Hilty and Brown 1986, Howell and Webb 1995, Ridgely and Greenfield 2001a, Schulenberg et al. 2010).

None reported.

None reported.