Philodice (bird)

Philodice is a genus of hummingbirds in the tribe Mellisugini and family Trochilidae.

Philodice
Magenta-throated woodstar (P. bryantae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
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
Species

Philodice bryantae
Philodice mitchelli

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]

Image Name Common name Distribution
Philodice bryantae Magenta-throated woodstar Costa Rica and Panama
Philodice mitchellii Purple-throated woodstar Colombia and Ecuador, and a minor localized population in Panama

References

  1. 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].
  2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 132.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  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.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
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