Genus of hummingbirds
Philodice is a genus of hummingbirds in the tribe Mellisugini and family Trochilidae .
Taxonomy
The genus Philodice was introduced in 1866 by the French ornithologists Étienne Mulsant , Jules Verreaux and Édouard Verreaux to accommodate a single species, the purple-throated woodstar , which is therefore the type species .[ 1] [ 2] The genus name comes from Greek mythology , Pholodice was the wife of Leucippus and daughter of Inachus .[ 3]
The genus now contains two species that were formerly assigned to Calliphlox . They were placed in the resurrected genus Philodice based on a molecular phylogenetic study that was published in 2017.[ 4] [ 5]
The two species are:[ 5]
Genus Philodice – Bourcier , 1847 – two species
Common name
Scientific name and subspecies
Range
Size and ecology
IUCN status and estimated population
Magenta-throated woodstar
Male
Female
Philodice bryantae (Lawrence, 1867)
Costa Rica and Panama
Size : Habitat : Diet :
LC
Purple-throated woodstar
Male
Female
Philodice mitchellii (Bourcier, 1847)
Colombia and Ecuador, and a minor localized population in Panama
Size : Habitat : Diet :
LC
References
^ Mulsant, M.E. ; Verreaux, J. ; Verreaux, E. (1866). "Essai d'une classification méthodique des Trochilidés" . Mémoires de la Société impériale des sciences naturelles de Cherbourg . 12 : 149–242 [230].
^ Peters, James Lee , ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World . Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 132.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^ Licona-Vera, Yuyini; Ornelas, Juan Francisco (2017). "The conquering of North America: dated phylogenetic and biogeographic inference of migratory behavior in bee hummingbirds" . BMC Evolutionary Biology . 17 (1): 126. Bibcode :2017BMCEE..17..126L . doi :10.1186/s12862-017-0980-5 . PMC 5460336 . PMID 28583078 .
^ a b Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela , eds. (August 2022). "Hummingbirds" . IOC World Bird List Version 12.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 September 2022 .