Apolo cotinga

Apolo cotinga
male
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cotingidae
Genus:	Phibalura
Species:	P. boliviana
Binomial name
Phibalura boliviana Chapman, 1930

The Apolo cotinga or palkachupa cotinga (Phibalura boliviana) is a species of passerine bird in the family Cotingidae. It is a member of the genus Phibalura.

The Apolo cotinga was collected in Bolivia in 1902 and in 1930 described as a subspecies of the swallow-tailed cotinga (Phibalura flavirostris boliviana).[2] The bird was rediscovered in 2000 (after 98 years without any records). It is restricted to the vicinity of Apolo in Bolivia.[3] The population is threatened by habitat loss and therefore listed as an endangered species.

Phibalura boliviana is treated as a separate species because of eye color, more curved bill, color of feet and tarsi, longer tail and different vocabulary. The Apolo cotinga is sedentary, while the swallow-tailed cotinga is partially migratory, often moving to lower elevations during the south hemisphere winter.[4][5]

However, the South American Classification Committee decided not to split the swallow-tailed cotinga in 2011,[6] and a large molecular phylogenetic study of the family Cotingidae published in 2014 found only small differences between the DNA sequences of the two taxa and thus did not provide evidence to support the treatment of P. f. boliviana as a separate species.[7]

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Phibalura boliviana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22724784A94878523. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22724784A94878523.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Chapman (1930). "A new race of Phibalura flavirostris from Bolivia". Auk 47: 87–88.
3. Hennessey, A. B. (2011). "Species rank of Phibalura (flavirostris) boliviana based on plumage, soft part color, vocalizations, and seasonal movements". Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 123 (3): 454–458. doi:10.1676/10-190.1. S2CID 83679203.
4. del Hoyo, J., et al. (eds.). "Apolo Cotinga (Phibalura boliviana)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
6. Remsen, J.V. (2011). "Proposal (494): Elevate Phibalura flavirostris boliviana to species rank". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
7. Berv, J. S.; Prum, R. O. (2014). "A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny of the Neotropical cotingas (Cotingidae, Aves) with a comparative evolutionary analysis of breeding system and plumage dimorphism and a revised phylogenetic classification". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 81: 120–136. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.001. PMID 25234241.