Heliantheini | |
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Green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Subfamily: | Lesbiinae |
Tribe: | Heliantheini Reichenbach, 1854 |
Genera | |
13, see text |
Heliantheini is one of the two tribes that make up the subfamily Lesbiinae of the hummingbird family Trochilidae. The other tribe in the subfamily is Lesbiini.
The informal name "brilliants" has been proposed for this group as it includes the genus Heliodoxa that has nine species with "brilliant" in their common name.[1]
The tribe contains 53 species divided into 14 genera.[2][3]