Philodice (bird)
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| Philodice | |
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| Magenta-throated woodstar (P. bryantae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Mellisugini |
| Genus: | Philodice Mulsant, Verreaux, J & Verreaux, É, 1866 |
| Type species | |
| Trochilus mitchellii (purple-throated woodstar) Bourcier, 1847
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| Species | |
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]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Magenta-throated woodstar
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Philodice bryantae (Lawrence, 1867) |
Costa Rica and Panama
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Purple-throated woodstar
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Philodice mitchellii (Bourcier, 1847) |
Colombia and Ecuador, and a minor localized population in Panama
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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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. 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.