Lophotriccus

Lophotriccus is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

Lophotriccus
Scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Lophotriccus Berlepsch, 1884

The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch in 1884.^[1][2] The type species was subsequently designated as a subspecies of the scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus squamaecrista) by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1884.^[3][4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" with trikkos which is an unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus is used to denote a tyrant flycatcher.^[5]

Species

The genus contains the following four species:^[6]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Scale-crested pygmy tyrant	Lophotriccus pileatus	Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
	Double-banded pygmy tyrant	Lophotriccus vitiosus	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname.
	Long-crested pygmy tyrant	Lophotriccus eulophotes	western Amazon Basin of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.
	Helmeted pygmy tyrant	Lophotriccus galeatus	Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.