Letitia's thorntail

Letitia's thorntail
Illustration by John Gould
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Discosura
Species:
D. letitiae
Binomial name
Discosura letitiae
(Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852)
Synonyms

Popelairia letitiae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852)

Letitia's thorntail (Discosura letitiae), also known as the coppery thorntail, is a very poorly known species of hummingbird in the "coquettes" tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae.[3][4] It was named after Letizia del Gallo Roccagiovine (1848–1863), granddaughter of the ornithologist Charles Bonaparte. [5]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Coppery Thorntail Discosura letitiae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22687265A93146232. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22687265A93146232.en. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (January 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List. v 12.1. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  4. ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2020) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip [.xls zipped 1 MB] retrieved May 27, 2021
  5. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2014). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds (1. Aufl ed.). London u.a: Bloomsbury Publ. ISBN 978-1-4729-0573-4.