Scaled woodcreeper

endemic to Brazil.^[2]

monotypic species.^[3]

nominate subspecies have a dusky face with whitish streaks and a whitish supercilium that is often broken. Their crown is dark brown lightly spotted with buff. Their back is bright reddish brown and their rump, wings, and tail cinnamon-rufous. Their throat is whitish. Their breast and belly are dusky brown with bold, black-edged, whitish streaks. Their iris is reddish brown to brown and their legs and feet olive-gray to blackish. Their bill is horn-colored to pinkish with a darker maxilla. Subspecies L. s. wagleri is slightly smaller than the nominate, with brighter cinnamon-rufous upperparts, less contrast between crown and back, and more brownish underparts with dimmer dark edges to the streaks.^[3][6]

Rio São Francisco from central Bahia south to northern São Paulo. Subspecies L. s. wagleri is found in northeastern Brazil north of the Rio São Francisco in southern Piauí, western Bahia, and northern Minas Gerais.^[3][6]

primary forest and older secondary forest. In elevation the species ranges mostly from sea level to 1,600 m (5,200 ft) but is found occasionally as high as 2,000 m (6,600 ft).^[3][6]

mixed-species feeding flocks. It hitches up trunks and along slim branches, mostly from the forest's mid-level to the canopy but sometimes lower.^[3]

IUCN has assessed the scaled woodcreeper as being of Least Concern. It has a large range, but its population size is not known and is believed to be decreasing. No immediate threats have been identified.^[1] The nominate subspecies is considered uncommon to locally fairly common; L. s. wagleri is more local. The species "[r]equires relatively intact forest, and [is] thus highly sensitive to human disturbance." Much of L. s. wagleri's habitat has been lost to deforestation. Both subspecies do occur in several protected areas.^[3]