Starthroat

Starthroat
	Long-billed starthroat; (Heliomaster longirostris); John Gould lithograph.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Lampornithini
Genus:	Heliomaster; Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
	Ornismya angelae; Lesson, 1833
Species
	4, see text

The starthroats in Heliomaster is a hummingbird genus in the subfamily Trochilinae.

Species

The genus contains the following species:^[2]

Genus *Heliomaster* – Bonaparte, 1850 – four species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Plain-capped starthroat	Heliomaster constantii (Delattre, 1843) Three subspecies H. c. constantii H. c. leocadiae H. c. pinicola	western Mexico, (the Sierra Madre Occidentals), to southern Costa Rica	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Long-billed starthroat	Heliomaster longirostris (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) Three subspecies H. l. longirostris H. l. pallidiceps H. l. albicrissa	southern Mexico to Panama, from Colombia south and east to Bolivia and Brazil, and on Trinidad	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Stripe-breasted starthroat Male Female	Heliomaster squamosus (Temminck, 1823)	eastern and southeastern Brazil.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-tufted starthroat	Heliomaster furcifer (Shaw, 1812)	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and possibly Ecuador.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

↑ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.