Haplophaedia

Haplophaedia
Greenish puffleg, Haplophaedia aureliae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Heliantheini
Genus:	Haplophaedia Simon, 1918
Type species
Trochilus aureliae Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846
Species
2-3, see text

Haplophaedia is a small genus of hummingbirds, which – together with the members of the genus Eriocnemis – are known as pufflegs. They are found at low levels in humid forest, woodland and shrub at altitudes of 1,200 to 3,100 m (3,900 to 10,200 ft) in the Andes of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. All species have a straight black bill, a coppery-green plumage, and a slightly forked dark blue tail. The leg-puffs are white in the greenish and hoary pufflegs, and buff-tinged in the buff-thighed puffleg.

Species

Three species are currently recognized, though the buff-thighed puffleg is sometimes considered a subspecies of the greenish puffleg.

Genus Haplophaedia – Simon, 1918 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Greenish puffleg	Haplophaedia aureliae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) Six subspecies H. a. floccus Nelson (1912) H. a. galindoi Wetmore (1967) H. a. caucensis Simon (1911) H. a. aureliae Bourcier & Mulsant (1846) H. a. russata Gould (1871) H. a. cutucuensis Schuchmann, Weller, & Heynen (2000)	Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Buff-thighed puffleg	Haplophaedia assimilis (Elliot, 1876) Two subspecies H. a. assimilis H. a. affinis	Bolivia and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Hoary puffleg	Haplophaedia lugens (Gould, 1852)	Colombia and Ecuador.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT

Further reading

• Heynen, I. (1999). Genus Haplophaedia. Pp. 643 in: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., & Sargatal, J. eds. (1999). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-25-3