trainbearer

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Trainbearer

| image = Black-tailed Trainbearer (Lesbia victoriae).jpg

| image_caption = Black-tailed trainbearer, Lesbia victoriae

| taxon = Lesbia

| authority = Lesson, 1833

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

L. victoriae

L. nuna

| type_species=Ornismya nuna

| type_species_authority=Lesson, 1832

}}

Lesbia is a small genus of hummingbird. Its two members, both known as trainbearers, are found in tropical South America. They are:{{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 | access-date=2 January 2020 }}

{{Species table |genus=Lesbia |authority-name=Lesson|authority-year= 1833 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Black-tailed trainbearer|binomial=Lesbia victoriae

|image=File:Black-tailed Trainbearer (Lesbia victoriae).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male

|image2 =File:Lesbia victoriae Cometa colinegro Black-tailed Trainbearer (female) (17218461365).jpg|image2-caption=Female

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

|range= Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

|range-image=File:Lesbia victoriae map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies{{Cite journal|last1=Weller|first1=André-A|last2=Schuchmann|first2=Karl-L|title=Biogeographic and taxonomic revision of the trainbearers Lesbia (Trochilidae), with the description of two new subspecies|url=http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Anzeiger-Ornith-Ges-Bayerns_43_2_0115-0136.pdf|journal=Ornithol|volume=43}} |bullets=on

|L. v. victoriae {{au|(Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846)}}

|L. v. juliae {{au|(Hartert, 1899)}}

|L. v. berlepschi {{au|(Hellmayr, 1915)}}

}}

}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Green-tailed trainbearer|binomial=Lesbia nuna

|image=File:Lesbia nuna Cometa coliverde Green-tailed Trainbearer (8743056764).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male

|image2 =File:Green hummingbird.JPG|image2-caption=Female

|authority-name=Lesson|authority-year= 1832|authority-not-original=yes

|range= Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela

|range-image=File:Lesbia nuna map.svg

|range-image-size=180px

|size=

|habitat=

|hunting=

|iucn-status= LC

|population=

|direction=

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

|L. n. gouldii {{au|Loddiges (1832)}}

|L. n. gracilis {{au|Gould (1846)}}

|L. n. aureliae {{au|Weller & Schuchmann (2004)}}

|L. n. pallidiventris {{au|Simon (1902)}}

|L. n. huallagae {{au|Weller & Schuchmann (2004)}}

|L. n. nuna {{au|Lesson (1832)}}

}}

}}

{{Species table/end}}