Threnetes

• Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri

  The Band-tailed Barbthroat has green upperparts and a banded tail. It visits flowers for nectar in humid forest and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.

• Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes leucurus

  This hummingbird lives in the understory of Amazonian forest. It has dark green plumage, a buff neck band, and a pale stripe on the cheek. Tail color varies among subspecies.

• Sooty Barbthroat Threnetes niger

  It is recorded from French Guiana; loehkeni, which the current Catalogue of Life treats as a subspecies of this species, is known from Amapá in northern Brazil. A 1990s forest survey in French Guiana captured one bird in secondary forest, while Amapá specimens of loehkeni were collected visiting flowering inga trees in 1967–1968.

• Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri

  The Band-tailed Barbthroat has green upperparts and a banded tail. It visits flowers for nectar in humid forest and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.