cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer

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| image = Cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer (Diglossa baritula) male Finca El Pilar 2.jpg

| image_caption = Male, Antigua Guatemala

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=Diglossa baritula |volume=2018 |page=e.T22723636A132022988 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22723636A132022988.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| genus = Diglossa

| species = baritula

| authority = Wagler, 1832

| synonyms =

| range_map = Diglossa baritula map.svg

}}

The cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer (Diglossa baritula) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It is a species known to be a nectar robber, apparently taking nectar while not pollinating the plant.{{cite journal | doi=10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2651:ANRCOM]2.0.CO;2 | title=Are nectar robbers cheaters or mutualists? |author1=Maloof, Joan E |author2=Inouye, David W | url=http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~jemaloof/manuscripts/Ecology.htm | journal=Ecology | pages=2651–2661 | volume=81 | issue=10 | date=Oct 2000 | issn=0012-9658| citeseerx=10.1.1.463.752 }}

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