Haplophaedia

Haplophaedia
Greenish puffleg, Haplophaedia aureliae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Tribe: Heliantheini
Genus:
Simon, 1918
Type species
Trochilus aureliae[1]
Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846
Species

2-3, see text

Haplophaedia is a small genus of hummingbirds, which – together with the members of the genus Eriocnemis – are known as pufflegs. They are found at low levels in humid forest, woodland and shrub at altitudes of 1,200 to 3,100 m (3,900 to 10,200 ft) in the Andes of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. All species have a straight black bill, a coppery-green plumage, and a slightly forked dark blue tail. The leg-puffs are white in the greenish and hoary pufflegs, and buff-tinged in the buff-thighed puffleg.

Species

Three species are currently recognized,[2] though the buff-thighed puffleg is sometimes considered a subspecies of the greenish puffleg.

Genus Haplophaedia – Simon, 1918 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Greenish puffleg

Haplophaedia aureliae
(Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846)

Six subspecies
  • H. a. floccus (Nelson, 1912)
  • H. a. galindoi Wetmore, 1967
  • H. a. caucensis (Simon, 1911)
  • H. a. aureliae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846)
  • H. a. russata (Gould, 1871)
  • H. a. cutucuensis Schuchmann, Weller, & Heynen, 2000
Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Buff-thighed puffleg

Haplophaedia assimilis
(Elliot, 1876)

Two subspecies
  • H. a. assimilis
  • H. a. affinis
Bolivia and Peru
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Hoary puffleg

Haplophaedia lugens
(Gould, 1852) 		Colombia and Ecuador.
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 NT 



References

  1. ^ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.

Further reading

  • Heynen, I. (1999). Genus Haplophaedia. Pp. 643 in: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., & Sargatal, J. eds. (1999). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-25-3


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