Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird / Lepidopyga lilliae
WBN 
Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird
SCI Name:
Protonym: Lepidopyga lilliae Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 69(1917) p.204
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Lepidopyga
Taxonomy Code: sabhum1
Type Locality: Punto Caiman, Santa Marta, Colombia.
Author: Stone
Publish Year: 1917
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
LEPIDOPYGA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Shining-green Hummingbird L. goudoti) L. lepidus neat, elegant, agreeable < lepos, leporis charm; Gr. πυγη pugē rump; "*Agyrtria ... γ. Lepidopyga Rchb. *— Goudotii (Bourc. 1844) Rchb. t. 763. 4765-66. — pl. Pitcairnia latifolia Ait. — N.-Granada. *— coeruleigularis (Gould 1850.) Rchb. t. 764. 4768-70. — pl. Oncidium ornitorhynchum K.H.B. — Veragua, Peru." (Reichenbach 1855); "Agyrtria γ Lepidopyga Reichenbach, Trochil. Enum., 1855, p. 7. Type, by subsequent designation, Trochilus goudoti Bourcier. (Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 50, pt. 5, 1911, p. 537.)" (Peters 1945, V, 50).
Var. Lepidopygia (Gr. -πυγιος -pugios -rumped).
Synon. Emilia.
lilliae
Lillian 'Lillie' May Stone née Lafferty (1872-1940) wife of US ornithologist Witmer Stone (Lepidopyga).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
