Hemitriccus

Tody-Tyrants
Hemitriccus granadensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Hemitriccus
Cabanis & Heine, 1859
Species

20, see text

Hemitriccus is a genus of small South American birds in the Tyrannidae family. They are commonly known as tody-tyrants or bamboo tyrants, but the former name is (or was) also shared with several members of the genus Poecilotriccus. Several species from the genus Hemitriccus are very similar, and consequently best separated by their voice.

It contains the following species: