Microchera

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| image = Snowcap (Microchera albocoronata).jpg

| image_caption = Snowcap (Microchera albocoronata)

| taxon = Microchera

| authority = Gould, 1858

| type_species = Mellisuga albocoronata{{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 = Lawrence, 1855

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 3, see text

| synonyms =

}}

Microchera is a genus of hummingbirds.

Species

The genus includes three species:{{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=6 January 2020 }}

{{Species table |genus=Microchera |authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1858 |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Snowcap |binomial=Microchera albocoronata

|image=File:Snowcap - El Tapir - Costa Rica S4E0785 (26612171081).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male

|image2 =File:Female Snowcap Hummingbird.jpg|image2-caption=Female

|authority-name=Lawrence |authority-year=1855 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

|range-image=File:Microchera albocoronata map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies{{cite web |url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/hummingbirds/ |title=Hummingbirds |website=IOC World Bird List |version =v 12.2 |editor-last1=Gill |editor-first1= F. |editor-last2=Donsker|editor-first2=D.|editor-last3=Rasmussen |editor-first3=P. |date=August 2022 |access-date=August 9, 2022 }} |bullets=on

|M. a. albocoronata|(Lawrence, 1855)

|M. a. parvirostris|(Lawrence, 1865)

}}

}}

{{Species table/row

|name= Coppery-headed emerald|binomial=Microchera cupreiceps

|image=File:Elvira cupreiceps Santa Elena 1.JPG|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male

|image2 =File:Coppery-headed emerald cocora cloud forest 3.27.24 DSC 2275-topaz-denoiseraw-sharpen.jpg|image2-caption=Female

|authority-name=Lawrence |authority-year=1866 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Costa Rica

|range-image=File:Elvira cupreiceps map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies=

}}

{{Species table/row

|name=White-tailed emerald |binomial=Microchera chionura

|image=File:White-tailed Emerald imported from iNaturalist photo 99145531 on 12 August 2023.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1851 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Costa Rica and Panama.

|range-image=File:Elvira chionura map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies=

}}

{{Species table/end}}

The white-tailed emerald and the coppery-headed emerald were formerly placed in the genus Elvira. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that these two species were closely related to the snowcap in the genus Microchera.{{ cite journal | last1=McGuire | first1=J. | last2=Witt | first2=C. | last3=Remsen | first3=J.V. | last4=Corl | first4=A. | last5=Rabosky | first5=D. | last6=Altshuler | first6=D. | last7=Dudley | first7=R. | date=2014 | title=Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds | journal=Current Biology | volume=24 | issue=8 | pages=910–916 | doi=10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016 | pmid=24704078 | doi-access=free | bibcode=2014CBio...24..910M }} The three species were therefore placed together in Microchera which has priority.

References

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Category:Microchera

Category:Bird genera

Category:Birds of Central America

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