Lesbia nuna Lesson, 1832

Castro-Vargas, Fernando, Cruz-Mendivelso, Yerson, Ortega-Chamorro, Darwin & Palacino-Rodríguez, Fredy, 2020, Birds from northeastern Bogotá Savannah, Cundinamarca, Colombia, Check List 16 (5), pp. 1375-1391 : 1385

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.5.1375

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5474787

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Lesbia nuna Lesson, 1832
status

 

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Figure 7A

New records. One male and one female sucking flower nectar of D. mutisii and Streptosolen jamesonii (Benth.) Miers in the native forest in ESNR on 20 October 2018. We recorded this species in systematic surveys on 16 December 2018 and on 15 April 2019.

Identification. Male bright green male ventrally; tail length approximately twice the length of the body; black helms and their distal half bright green. Females with bright green spots on white ventral region and shorter tail than in males.

Remarks. We did not record any reproductive events. The species was rare in our study.

Distribution. Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae

Genus

Lesbia

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