| Chaetocercus | |
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| Female gorgeted woodstar (Chaetocercus heliodor) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Mellisugini |
| Genus: | Chaetocercus G.R. Gray, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Ornismya jourdanii (rufous-shafted woodstar) Bourcier, 1839 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chaetocercus is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
The genus Chaetocercus was introduced in 1855 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray with the rufous-shafted woodstar as the type species. [1] [2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek words khaitē, meaning "hair" and kerkos, meaning "tail". [3]
The genus contains six species: [4]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White-bellied woodstar | Chaetocercus mulsant (Bourcier, 1843) | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Little woodstar | Chaetocercus bombus Gould, 1871 | Colombia, Ecuador and Peru | Size: Habitat: Diet: | NT |
| Gorgeted woodstar | Chaetocercus heliodor (Bourcier, 1840) Two subspecies
| Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Santa Marta woodstar | Chaetocercus astreans (Bangs, 1899) | Colombia | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
| Esmeraldas woodstar | Chaetocercus berlepschi (Simon, 1889) | Ecuador | Size: Habitat: Diet: | VU |
| Rufous-shafted woodstar | Chaetocercus jourdanii (Bourcier, 1839) Three subspecies
| Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC |
All these species, except for the rufous-shafted woodstar, were formerly placed in the genus Acestrura. [5] In 1999 Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann remarked in the Handbook of the Birds of the World that for the species placed in Acestrura: "...no evidence in external morphology justifies treatment in a genus separate from C. jourdanii". [6]
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