Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Streak-throated Hermit (Phaethornis rupurumii) - HBW 5, p. 545
French: Ermite balafré
German: Strichelkehl-Schattenkolibri
Spanish: Ermitaño del Rupununi
Taxonomy: Phaetornis [sic] Rupurumii Boucard, 1892, Rupununi River, Guyana.
One of the small hermits sometimes separated in genus Pygmornis. Often considered conspecific with P. squalidus, but morphological characters indicate it is more closely related to P. longuemareus and P. idaliae. Future studies may reveal that geographically isolated race amazonicus should be considered a full species. A hybrid of present species with P. longuemareus was described as “P. longuemareus imatacae”; another with P. ruber ruber as “P. longuemareus aethopyga”. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- rupurumii Boucard, 1892 - extreme E Colombia (E Vichada) through C & E Venezuela and W Guyana to adjacent N Brazil.
- amazonicus Hellmayr, 1906 - along lower R Amazon in NC Brazil.
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Perched on a branch
Locality Urucará, Amazonas State, Brazil
Glauco Kohler 9 February 2011 6 weeks ago 3.5 -
male at a lek in disturbed primary forest
Locality Floresta Nacional do Tapajós, Pará State, Brazil (ssp amazonicus)
Alexander Lees 7 February 2011 28 weeks ago 2.6
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Several birds at a lek. Locality Anavilhanas Archipelago, Rio Negro, Amazonas State, Brazil
(ssp rupurumii?)
Bradley Davis 11 December 2008 2 years ago 4
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