Chaetocercus

Chaetocercus
	Female gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Mellisugini
Genus:	Chaetocercus; G.R. Gray, 1855
Type species
	Ornismya jourdanii (rufous-shafted woodstar); Bourcier, 1839
Synonyms
	Acestrura Gould, 1861;

Chaetocercus is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Chaetocercus was introduced in 1855 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the rufous-shafted woodstar as the type species.[1][2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek words khaitē, meaning "hair" and kerkos, meaning "tail".[3]

The genus contains six species:[4]

White-bellied woodstar (Chaetocercus mulsant)
Little woodstar (Chaetocercus bombus)
Gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor)
Santa Marta woodstar (Chaetocercus astreans)
Esmeraldas woodstar (Chaetocercus berlepschi)
Rufous-shafted woodstar (Chaetocercus jourdanii)

All these species, except for the rufous-shafted woodstar, were formerly placed in the genus Acestrura.[5] In 1999 Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann remarked in the Handbook of the Birds of the World that for the species placed in Acestrura: "...no evidence in external morphology justifies treatment in a genus separate from C. jourdani".[6]

References

Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 22.
Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 140.
Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 139.
Schuchmann, K.L. (1999). "Genus Chaetocercus". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. p. 677. ISBN 978-84-87334-25-2.

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[1] Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 22.

[2] Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 140.

[3] Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[ioc-4] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 September 2022.

[5] Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 139.

[hbw-6] Schuchmann, K.L. (1999). "Genus Chaetocercus". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. p. 677. ISBN 978-84-87334-25-2.