Cypseloides

Cypseloides is a genus of swifts in the family Apodidae. It contains eight described species. They occur mainly in Central and South America. The exception being the American black swift, which has a wide range into North America.

Cypseloides
Great dusky swift (Cypseloides senex)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Apodidae
Subfamily:	Cypseloidinae
Genus:	Cypseloides Streubel, 1848
Type species
Hemiprocne fumigata (sooty swift) Streubel, 1848
Species
See article

Taxonomy

The genus Cypseloides was introduced in 1848 by the German naturist August Vollrath Streubel.^[1] The type species was subsequently designated by Philip Sclater in 1865 as the sooty swift.^[2][3] The name combines the genus Cypselus introduced by Johann Illiger in 1811 and the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".^[4]

The genus contains eight species:^[5]

• Spot-fronted swift (Cypseloides cherriei)
• White-chinned swift (Cypseloides cryptus)
• Sooty swift (Cypseloides fumigatus)
• White-chested swift (Cypseloides lemosi)
• Rothschild's swift (Cypseloides rothschildi)
• Great dusky swift (Cypseloides senex)
• White-fronted swift (Cypseloides storeri)
• American black swift (Cypseloides niger)