Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)

Spangled Coquette (Lophornis stictolophus) - HBW 5, p. 568

French: Coquette pailletée German: Glanzelfe Spanish: Coqueta Coronada

Taxonomy: Lophornis stictolophus Salvin and Elliot, 1873, Antioquia, Colombia.
Possibly forms a superspecies with L. brachylophus and L. delattrei. “L. insignibarbis”, known from a single Bogotá trade skin and sometimes awarded monospecific genus Lithiophanes, may be a hybrid of present species and L. chalybeus verreauxii, although apparently characters do not fit precisely with either. Monotypic.

Distribution: W Venezuela through E Colombia and E Ecuador to N Peru (Marañón Valley).