Nesophlox

Nesophlox is a genus in the family of Hummingbirds. It consists of two endemic hummingbirds of the Bahamas.

Nesophlox
Bahama woodstar, (Nesophlox evelynae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Mellisugini
Genus:	Nesophlox Ridgway, 1910
Species
2, see text
Synonyms
Calliphlox

Species

The genus contains two species:^[1]

Genus Nesophlox – Ridgway, 1910 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Bahama woodstar	Nesophlox evelynae (Bourcier, 1847)	Bahama and Turks and Caicos islands	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Inagua woodstar	Nesophlox lyrura (Gould, 1869)	Inagua in the Bahamas.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

These species were formerly placed in the genus Calliphlox. Molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2014 and 2017 found that the genus Calliphlox was polyphyletic.^[2][3] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, the Bahama woodstar and the Inagua woodstar were moved to the resurrected genus Nesophlox that had been introduced by Robert Ridgway in 1910.^[1][4]