Heliantheini

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Heliantheini
Green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Lesbiinae
Tribe: Heliantheini
Reichenbach, 1854
Genera

13, see text

Heliantheini is one of the two

Trochilidae. The other tribe in the subfamily is Lesbiini
.

The informal name "brilliants" has been proposed for this group as it includes the genus Heliodoxa that has nine species with "brilliant" in their common name.[1]

The tribe contains 53 species divided into 14 genera.[2][3]

Phylogeny

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James Van Remsen, Jr. updated the Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World for the 4th edition in 2013 they divided the hummingbirds into six subfamilies and proposed using the name Heliantheini for one of the two tribes in the subfamily Lesbiinae. The tribe Heliantheini had been introduced (as a subfamily Heliantheinae) by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1854.[5][6]

Cladogram

Molecular phylogenetic studies by Jimmy McGuire and collaborators published between 2007 and 2014 determined the relationships between the major groups of hummingbirds.[2][4][7] In the cladogram below the English names are those introduced in 1997.[8] The Latin names are those proposed by Dickinson and Remsen in 2013.[9]

Trochilidae

Florisuginae – topazes

Phaethornithinae
– hermits

Polytminae – mangos

Lesbiinae

Heliantheini – brilliants

Lesbiini – coquettes

Patagoninae – giant hummingbird

Trochilinae

Lampornithini – mountain gems

Mellisugini – bees

Trochilini – emeralds

The phylogeny of the Heliantheini based on a

molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 is shown below. Loddigesia (marvelous spatuletail) was found to be embedded within Eriocnemis.[2]

Heliantheini

Haplophaedia

Loddigesia

Lafresnaya

Aglaeactis

Coeligena

Urochroa

Heliodoxa

Pterophanes
– great sapphirewing

Ensifera – sword-billed hummingbird

Boissonneaua

Urosticte

Ocreatus

Taxonomic list

The tribe contains 14 genera.[3]

Image Genus Living species
Haplophaedia
Eriocnemis
Loddigesia
Aglaeactis
Coeligena
Lafresnaya
Ensifera
Pterophanes
Boissonneaua
Ocreatus
Urochroa
Urosticte
Heliodoxa

References

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