Philodice (bird)

Philodice
	Magenta-throated woodstar (P. bryantae)
Scientific classification
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
Species
	Philodice bryantae; Philodice mitchelli

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

Taxonomy[edit]

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]

Genus **Philodice** – Bourcier, 1847 – two species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Magenta-throated woodstar	Philodice bryantae (Lawrence, 1867)	Costa Rica and Panama	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Purple-throated woodstar	Philodice mitchellii (Bourcier, 1847)	Colombia and Ecuador, and a minor localized population in Panama	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

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. 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.

[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.

[licona-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.

[ioc-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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