Haplophaedia

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Haplophaedia

| image = Greenish_Puffleg_(Haplophaedia_aureliae).jpg

| image_caption = Greenish puffleg, Haplophaedia aureliae

| taxon = Haplophaedia

| authority = Simon, 1918

| type_species = Trochilus aureliae{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=80 |title= Trochilidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}}

| type_species_authority = Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 2-3, see text

| synonyms =

}}

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 {{cvt|1200 to 3100|m}} 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,{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2020 | title=Hummingbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=2 January 2020 }} though the buff-thighed puffleg is sometimes considered a subspecies of the greenish puffleg.

{{Species table |genus=Haplophaedia |authority-name= Simon |authority-year= 1918 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Greenish puffleg|binomial=Haplophaedia aureliae

|image=File:Greenish Puffleg - Colombia S4E3301.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Bourcier & Mulsant |authority-year=1846 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.

|range-image=File:Urosticte benjamini map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

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|iucn-status= LC

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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Six subspecies |bullets=on

|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

}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Buff-thighed puffleg|binomial=Haplophaedia assimilis

|image=File:Haplophaedia assimilis Buff-thighed Puffleg; Paucartambo, Cuzco, Peru.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Elliot |authority-year=1876 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Bolivia and Peru

|range-image=File:Urosticte ruficrissa map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

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|iucn-status= LC

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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on

| H. a. assimilis

| H. a. affinis

}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Hoary puffleg|binomial=Haplophaedia lugens

|image=File:Hoary Puffleg.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1852 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Colombia and Ecuador.

|range-image=File:Haplophaedia lugens map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

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|iucn-status=NT

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Haplophaedia

Species

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Further reading