Flame-rumped sapphire

The flame-rumped sapphire (Hylocharis pyropygia) is a doubtfully valid species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae known only from Brazil. Today few authorities accept it as valid, instead believing it represents a hybrid between Chlorostilbon lucidus and Hylocharis cyanus.

Flame-rumped sapphire
Scientific classification
(disputed)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Hylocharis
Species:
H. pyropygia
Binomial name
Hylocharis pyropygia
Salvin & Godman, 1881

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