Shining-green Hummingbird

SCI Name:  Lepidopyga goudoti
Protonym:  Trochilus Goudoti Rev.Zool. 6 p.100
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Lepidopyga
Taxonomy Code:  shghum1
Type Locality:  Ybagne [sic], Colombia.
Author:  Bourcier
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

goudoti / goudotii
● Justin-Marie Goudot (1802-1848) French naturalist, botanist, collector in Colombia 1822-1843 (Chamaepetes, Lepidopyga).
● Jules-Prosper Goudot (b. 1803) French naturalist, entomologist, collector in Madagascar, the Comoros and Mascarenes 1830-1857 (syn. Tylas eduardi).

SUBSPECIES

Shining-green Hummingbird (luminosa)
SCI Name: Lepidopyga goudoti luminosa
luminosa / luminosus
L. luminosus glorious, bright < lumen, luminis light.

Shining-green Hummingbird (goudoti)
SCI Name: Lepidopyga goudoti goudoti
goudoti / goudotii
● Justin-Marie Goudot (1802-1848) French naturalist, botanist, collector in Colombia 1822-1843 (Chamaepetes, Lepidopyga).
● Jules-Prosper Goudot (b. 1803) French naturalist, entomologist, collector in Madagascar, the Comoros and Mascarenes 1830-1857 (syn. Tylas eduardi).

Shining-green Hummingbird (zuliae)
SCI Name: Lepidopyga goudoti zuliae
zuliae / zuliana / zulianus / zuliensis
Zulia State, Venezuela.

Shining-green Hummingbird (phaeochroa)
SCI Name: Lepidopyga goudoti phaeochroa
phaeochroa
Gr. φαιος phaios  dusky, brown; χροα khroa, χροας khroas  colour, appearance  < χρως khrōs, χρωτος khrōtos  complexion.