Sparkling-tailed woodstar
| Sparkling-tailed woodstar | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Mellisugini |
| Genus: | Tilmatura Reichenbach, 1854 |
| Species: | T. dupontii |
| Binomial name | |
| Tilmatura dupontii (Lesson, RP, 1832) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ornismya dupontii | |
The sparkling-tailed woodstar (Tilmatura dupontii), also known as the sparkling-tailed hummingbird, is a species of hummingbird in tribe Mellisugini of subfamily Trochilinae, the "bee hummingbirds". It is the only species placed in the genus Tilmatura. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.