Philodice is a genus of hummingbirds in the tribe Mellisugini and family Trochilidae.
The genus Philodice was introduced in 1866 by the French ornithologists Étienne Mulsant, Jules Verreaux and Édouard Verreaux to accommodate a single species, the purple-throated woodstar, which is therefore the type species.[1][2] The genus name comes from Greek mythology, Pholodice was the wife of Leucippus and daughter of Inachus.[3]
The genus now contains two species that were formerly assigned to Calliphlox. They were placed in the resurrected genus Philodice based on a molecular phylogenetic study that was published in 2017.[4][5]
The two species are:[5]
Philodice is a genus of hummingbirds in the tribe Mellisugini and family Trochilidae.
