Plumeleteer

Chalybura
	Bronze-tailed plumeleteer; (Chalybura urochrysia)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Trochilini
Genus:	Chalybura; Reichenbach, 1854
Type species
	Trochilus buffonii; Lesson, 1832
Species
	2, see text

The plumeleteers are a genus Chalybura of Neotropical hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.

Species

The genus contains the following species:^[2]

Genus **Chalybura** – Reichenbach, 1854 – two species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
White-vented plumeleteer Male Female	Chalybura buffonii (Lesson, 1832) Five subspecies C. b. micans Bangs & Barbour, 1922 C. b. buffonii Lesson, RP, (1832) C. b. aeneicauda Lawrence, 1865 C. b. caeruleogaster Gould, (1847) C. b. intermedia Hartert, EJO & Hartert, CBE, 1894	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Bronze-tailed plumeleteer Male Female	Chalybura urochrysia (Gould, 1861) Three subspecies C. u. urochrysia C. u. melanorrhoa C. u. isaurae	eastern Honduras to northwestern Ecuador.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

^ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 January 2020.

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