| Indigo Flowerpiercer | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Diglossopis |
| Species: | D. indigotica |
| Binomial name | |
| Diglossopis indigotica (Sclater, 1856) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Diglossa indigotica |
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The Indigo Flowerpiercer (Diglossopis indigotica) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in humid forest on the lower west Andean slopes in Ecuador and Colombia. Despite its blue plumage, mtDNA indicates this species actually belongs in the genus Diglossa.