Doricha

For ancient Greek courtesan, see Rhodopis (hetaera).

Doricha is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Doricha
Female Mexican sheartail, Doricha eliza
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Mellisugini
Genus:	Doricha Reichenbach, 1854
Type species
Trochilus enicurus (slender sheartail) Vieillot, 1818

Taxonomy

The genus Doricha was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the slender sheartail which is thus the type species.^[1][2] The genus name is that of Rhodopsis a celebrated Ancient Greek courtesan or hetaira.^[3]

The genus contains the following species:^[4]

Genus Doricha – Reichenbach, 1854 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Mexican sheartail Male Female	Doricha eliza (Lesson, RP & Delattre, 1839)	Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Slender sheartail Male Female	Doricha enicura (Vieillot, 1818)	El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC