Thaumasius

Thaumasius is a genus in the family of Hummingbirds, and consists of 2 species.

Thaumasius
Spot-throated hummingbird, (Thaumasius taczanowskii)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Trochilini
Genus:	Thaumasius Sclater, PL, 1879
Species
2, see text

Taxonomy and species list

These two species were formerly placed in the genus Leucippus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Leucippus was polyphyletic.^[1] To resolve the polyphyly these two species were moved to the resurrected genus Thaumasius that had been introduced by Philip Sclater in 1879 with the spot-throated hummingbird as the type species.^[2][3]

Genus Thaumasius – Sclater, PL, 1879 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Tumbes hummingbird	Thaumasius baeri (Simon, 1901)	Ecuador and Peru.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Spot-throated hummingbird	Thaumasius taczanowskii Sclater, PL, 1879	Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC