Leucippus (bird)

Leucippus
Leucippus fallax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Leucippus
Bonaparte, 1850
species

L. fallax
L. baeri
L. taczanowskii
L. chlorocercus

Leucippus is a genus of hummingbirds. Its members are found in western South America. Two species, A. chionogaster, the White-bellied Hummingbird and A. viridicauda, the Green-and-white Hummingbird are commonly placed in the genus Amazilia, while a third species, T. hypostictus, the Many-spotted Hummingbird, often is placed in the monotypic Taphrospilus, but are all sometimes placed here.

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