The barbthroats are a genus Threnetes of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
| Barbthroats | |
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| Band-tailed barbthroat, Threnetes ruckeri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Subfamily: | Phaethornithinae |
| Genus: | Threnetes Gould, 1852 |
| Type species | |
| Trochilus leucurus Linnaeus, 1766 | |
| Species | |
See text | |
Taxonomy
The genus Threnetes was introduced in 1852 by the English ornithologist John Gould.[1] The name is from the Ancient Greek thrēnētēs meaning "mourner".[2] The type species is the pale-tailed barbthroat.[3] The genus contains three species.[4]
| Image | Name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Threnetes leucurus | Pale-tailed barbthroat | Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela |
 | Threnetes niger | Sooty barbthroat | French Guiana |
| | Threnetes ruckeri | Band-tailed barbthroat | from southeastern Guatemala and Belize to western Ecuador and western Venezuela |
The supposed "black barbthroats", described as T. grzimeki, are actually juvenile males of the rufous-breasted hermit (Glaucis hirsuta).