Chalcostigma

Chalcostigma is a genus of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Chalcostigma
Rainbow-bearded thornbill (Chalcostigma herrani)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Lesbiini
Genus:	Chalcostigma Reichenbach, 1854
Type species
Ornismya heteropogon Boissonneau, 1840
Species
5, see text

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Chalcostigma was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.^[1] The type species was subsequently designated as the bronze-tailed thornbill by George Gray.^[2][3] The name of the genus is derived from the Greek khalkos meaning bronze and stigme for a spot or mark, a reference to the beard on the bronze-tailed thornbill.^[4]

The genus contains the following five species:^[5]

Genus Chalcostigma – Reichenbach, 1854 – five species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Rufous-capped thornbill	Chalcostigma ruficeps (Gould, 1846)	Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Olivaceous thornbill	Chalcostigma olivaceum (Lawrence, 1864)	Bolivia and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-mantled thornbill	Chalcostigma stanleyi (Bourcier, 1851) Three subspecies C. s. stanleyi (Bourcier, 1851) C. s. versigulare (Zimmer, 1924) C. s. vulcani (Gould, 1852)	Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Bronze-tailed thornbill	Chalcostigma heteropogon (Boissonneau, 1840)	Colombia and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Rainbow-bearded thornbill Male Female	Chalcostigma herrani (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) Two subspecies C. h. tolimae Kleinschmidt, O, 1927 C. h. herrani (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846)	Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC