Barbthroat

The barbthroats are a genus Threnetes of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Barbthroats
Band-tailed barbthroat, Threnetes ruckeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Subfamily:	Phaethornithinae
Genus:	Threnetes Gould, 1852
Type species
Trochilus leucurus Linnaeus, 1766
Species
See text

Taxonomy

The genus Threnetes was introduced in 1852 by the English ornithologist John Gould.^[1] The name is from the Ancient Greek thrēnētēs meaning "mourner".^[2] The type species is the pale-tailed barbthroat.^[3] The genus contains three species.^[4]

Genus Threnetes – Gould, 1852 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Pale-tailed barbthroat	Threnetes leucurus (Linnaeus, 1766) Four subspecies T. l. cervinicauda Gould, 1855 T. l. rufigastra Cory, 1915 T. l. leucurus (Linnaeus, 1766) T. l. medianus Hellmayr, 1929	Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Sooty barbthroat	Threnetes niger (Linnaeus, 1758) Two subspecies T. n. niger (Linnaeus, 1758) T. n. loehkeni Grantsau, 1969	French Guiana	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Band-tailed barbthroat	Threnetes ruckeri (Bourcier, 1847) Three subspecies T. r. ruckeri (Bourcier, 1847) T. r. venezuelensis Cory, 1913 T. r. ventosus Bangs & T. E. Penard, 1924	from southeastern Guatemala and Belize to western Ecuador and western Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

The supposed "black barbthroats", described as T. grzimeki, are actually juvenile males of the rufous-breasted hermit (Glaucis hirsuta).