Biology:Heliantheini

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Short description: Tribe of birds

Heliantheini
Green crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) (19406173133).jpg
Green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Lesbiinae
Tribe: Heliantheini
Reichenbach, 1854
Genera

13, see text

Heliantheini is one of the two tribes that make up the subfamily Lesbiinae of the hummingbird family Trochilidae. The other tribe in the subfamily is Lesbiini.

The informal name "brilliants" has been proposed for this group as it includes the genus Heliodoxa that has nine species with "brilliant" in their common name.[1]

The tribe contains 53 species divided into 14 genera.[2][3]

Phylogeny

A molecular phylogenetic study of the hummingbirds published in 2007 found that the family was composed of nine major clades.[4] When Edward Dickinson and James Van Remsen, Jr. updated the Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World for the 4th edition in 2013 they divided the hummingbirds into six subfamilies and proposed using the name Heliantheini for one of the two tribes in the subfamily Lesbiinae. The tribe Heliantheini had been introduced (as a subfamily Heliantheinae) by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1854.[5][6]

Cladogram

Molecular phylogenetic studies by Jimmy McGuire and collaborators published between 2007 and 2014 determined the relationships between the major groups of hummingbirds.[2][4][7] In the cladogram below the English names are those introduced in 1997.[8] The Latin names are those proposed by Dickinson and Remsen in 2013.[9]

Trochilidae

Florisuginae – topazes

Phaethornithinae – hermits

Polytminae – mangos

Lesbiinae

Heliantheini – brilliants

Lesbiini – coquettes

Patagoninae – giant hummingbird

Trochilinae

Lampornithini – mountain gems

Mellisugini – bees

Trochilini – emeralds

The phylogeny of the Heliantheini based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 is shown below. Loddigesia (marvelous spatuletail) was found to be embedded within Eriocnemis.[2]

Heliantheini

Haplophaedia

Eriocnemis and Loddigesia

Lafresnaya

Aglaeactis

Coeligena

Urochroa

Heliodoxa

Pterophanes – great sapphirewing

Ensifera – sword-billed hummingbird

Boissonneaua

Urosticte

Ocreatus

Taxonomic list

The tribe contains 14 genera.[3]

Image Genus Living species
Greenish Puffleg - Colombia S4E3301.jpg Haplophaedia
Sapphire-Vented Puffleg (Eriocnemis luciani).jpg Eriocnemis
Loddigesia mirabilis 114707728.jpg Loddigesia
Aglaeactis cupripennis (Colibrí paramuno) (15321782077).jpg Aglaeactis
Collared Inca (Coeligena torquata) 4.jpg Coeligena
Mountain Velvetbreast (Lafresnaya lafresnayi).jpg Lafresnaya
Sword-billed hummingbird (male) at Guango Lodge, Ecuador (21310837273).jpg Ensifera
Great Sapphirewing (f) JCB.jpg Pterophanes
Boissoneaua flavescens (Colibrí chupasavia) (16804678517).jpg Boissonneaua
Booted Racket tail JCB.jpg Ocreatus
Urochroa bougueri (Colibrí nagüiblanco) (14144500332).jpg Urochroa
  • Rufous-gaped hillstar, Urochroa bougueri
  • Green-backed hillstar, Urochroa leucura
Purple-bibbed Whitetip (Urosticte benjamini).jpg Urosticte
Violet-fronted Brilliant 2 JCB.jpg Heliodoxa

References

  1. Bleiweiss, R.; Kirsch, J.A.; Matheus, J.C. (1997). "DNA hybridization evidence for the principal lineages of hummingbirds (Aves:Trochilidae)". Molecular Biology and Evolution 14 (3): 325–343. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025767. PMID 9066799. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 McGuire, J.; Witt, C.; Remsen, J.V.; Corl, A.; Rabosky, D.; Altshuler, D.; Dudley, R. (2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds". Current Biology 24 (8): 910–916. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016. PMID 24704078. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 McGuire, J.A.; Witt, C.C.; Altshuler, D.L.; Remsen, J.V. (2007). "Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of hummingbirds: Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of partitioned data and selection of an appropriate partitioning strategy". Systematic Biology 56 (5): 837–856. doi:10.1080/10635150701656360. PMID 17934998. 
  5. Reichenbach, Ludwig (1854). "Aufzählung der Colibris Oder Trochilideen in ihrer wahren natürlichen Verwandtschaft, nebst Schlüssel ihrer Synonymik" (in German). Journal für Ornithologie (Supplement) 1: 1–24 [9]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13867387. 
  6. Dickinson & Remsen 2013, p. 116.
  7. McGuire, J.A.; Witt, C.C.; Remsen, J.V.; Dudley, R.; Altshuler, D.L. (2009). "A higher-level taxonomy for hummingbirds". Journal of Ornithology 150 (1): 155–165. doi:10.1007/s10336-008-0330-x. 
  8. Bleiweiss, R.; Kirsch, J.A.; Matheus, J.C. (1997). "DNA hybridization evidence for the principal lineages of hummingbirds (Aves:Trochilidae).". Molecular Biology and Evolution 14 (3): 325–343. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025767. PMID 9066799. 
  9. Dickinson & Remsen 2013, pp. 105–136.

Sources

Wikidata ☰ Q105081530 entry