Trochilinae

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Trochilinae
Female violet-headed hummingbird (Klais guimeti)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Trochilinae
Reichenbach, 1854
Tribes

3, see text

Trochilinae is one of the six

Trochilidae
.

The subfamily is divided into three tribes: Lampornithini (mountain gems) containing 18 species, Mellisugini (bees) containing 37 species and Trochilini (emeralds) containing 115 species.[1][2]

Phylogeny

The hummingbirds were formerly divided into two subfamilies, the hermits (

Phaethornithinae) and the nonhermits (Trochilinae). The results from a 2007 DNA hybridization study suggested that the hermits were basal to the rest of the family.[3]

A

polyphyletic.[1] As a result, many of the genera in this part of the tree have been revised.[2][6]

Trochilidae

Florisuginae – topazes

Phaethornithinae
– hermits

Polytminae – mangoes

Lesbiinae

Heliantheini – brilliants

Lesbiini – coquettes

Patagoninae – giant hummingbird

Trochilinae

Lampornithini – mountain gems

Mellisugini – bees

Trochilini – emeralds

The above

molecular phylogenetic study by Jimmy McGuire and collaborators published in 2014.[1] The Latin names are those proposed by Dickinson and Remsen in 2013.[7]

References

  1. ^
    PMID 24704078
    .
  2. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Hummingbirds"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  3. PMID 9066799
    .
  4. PMID 17934998
    .
  5. ^ Dickinson & Remsen 2013, p. 111.
  6. PMID 29245495
    .
  7. ^ Dickinson & Remsen 2013, pp. 105–136.

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