Great sapphirewing | |
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Male Pterophanes cyanopterus caeruleus, Caldas Department, Colombia | |
Female in Yanacocha Reserve, Ecuador | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Tribe: | Heliantheini |
Genus: | Pterophanes Gould, 1849 |
Species: | P. cyanopterus
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Binomial name | |
Pterophanes cyanopterus (Fraser, 1840)
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Synonyms | |
Temminck's sapphirewing Pterophanes temmincki[3] |
The great sapphirewing (Pterophanes cyanopterus) is a species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", tribe Heliantheini in subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[4][5]