Lophotriccus

Lophotriccus
Scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Lophotriccus Berlepsch, 1884

Lophotriccus is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch in 1884. ^{[1] [2]} The type species was subsequently designated as a subspecies of the scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus squamaecrista) by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1884. ^{[3] [4]} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" with trikkos which is an unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus is used to denote a tyrant flycatcher. ^[5]

Species

The genus contains the following four species: ^[6]

Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Scale-crested pygmy tyrant	Lophotriccus pileatus	Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
	Double-banded pygmy tyrant	Lophotriccus vitiosus	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname.
	Long-crested pygmy tyrant	Lophotriccus eulophotes	western Amazon Basin of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.
	Helmeted pygmy tyrant	Lophotriccus galeatus	Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

References

1. Berlepsch, Hans von (1883). "Liste des oiseaux recueillis par MM. Stolzmann et Siemiradzki dans l'Ecuadeur occidental". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (in French). 1883: 536–577 [553]. The title page gives the year as 1883 but the issue was not published until 1884.
2. Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 31. ISBN   978-0-9568611-2-2.
3. Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1884). "Aves". Zoological Record. 20: 34.
4. Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 73.
5. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p.  232. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.