Aglaiocercus

Aglaiocercus
Long-tailed sylph, Aglaiocercus kingii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Lesbiini
Genus:	Aglaiocercus Zimmer, 1930
Type species
Ornismya kingii Lesson, 1832
Species
3, see text

Aglaiocercus is a genus of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae.

Description

It contains the following species:

Genus Aglaiocercus – Zimmer, 1930 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Long-tailed sylph Male Female	Aglaiocercus kingii (Lesson, 1832) Six subspecies A. k. margarethae A. k. caudatus A. k. emmae A. k. kingii A. k. mocoa A. k. smaragdinus	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Violet-tailed sylph Male Female	Aglaiocercus coelestis (Gould, 1861)	Colombia and Ecuador.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Venezuelan sylph	Aglaiocercus berlepschi (Hartert, 1898)	Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EN