Archilochus (bird)

Archilochus is a genus of hummingbirds. It consists of two small migratory species which breed in North America and winter in Central America, Mexico and the southern United States.

Archilochus
Male ruby-throated hummingbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Mellisugini
Genus:	Archilochus Reichenbach, 1854
Type species
Trochilus alexandri Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846
Species
2, see text

The genus Archilochus was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach with the black-chinned hummingbird as the type species.^[1][2] The name Archilochus is that of a Greek lyric poet from the island of Paros who lived around 650 BC.^[3] Two species are placed in the genus.^[4]

Genus Archilochus – Reichenbach, 1854 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Ruby-throated hummingbird Male Female	Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758)	Central America, Mexico, and Florida, and migrates to Eastern North America	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-chinned hummingbird Male Female	Archilochus alexandri (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846)	Western United States, reaching north into Canada in Alberta and British Columbia, east to Oklahoma, and as far south as Mexico.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC