Orochelidon

Orochelidon is a genus of birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. These species are resident in the Andes Mountains of South America.

Orochelidon
Brown-bellied swallow (Orochelidon murina)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Hirundinidae
Genus:	Orochelidon Ridgway, 1903
Type species
Petrochelidon murina brown-bellied swallow Cassin, 1853

Taxonomy

The genus Orochelidon was introduced in 1903 by the America ornithologist Robert Ridgway with the brown-bellied swallow as the type species.^[1][2] The name combines the Ancient Greek oros meaning "mountain" and khelidōn meaning "swallow".^[3] The genus was formerly considered as a junior synonym of the genus Notiochelidon but was resurrected for a clade of Neotropical swallows based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2005.^[4][5]

Species

The genus contains three species:^[5]

• Pale-footed swallow (Orochelidon flavipes)
• Brown-bellied swallow (Orochelidon murina)
• Andean swallow (Orochelidon andecola)