Philodice is a genus of hummingbirds in the tribe Mellisugini and family Trochilidae.
| 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 | |
Taxonomy
editThe 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: |
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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
edit- ^ 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.