Green Hermit Phaethornis guy Scientific name definitions
Alice McBride
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated August 31, 2012
Text last updated August 31, 2012
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | colibrí ermità verd |
| Czech | kolibřík šedobřichý |
| Dutch | Groene Heremietkolibrie |
| English | Green Hermit |
| English (United States) | Green Hermit |
| French | Ermite vert |
| French (France) | Ermite vert |
| German | Grünschattenkolibri |
| Japanese | ミドリユミハチドリ |
| Norwegian | grønneremitt |
| Polish | pustelnik zielony |
| Russian | Зелёный колибри-отшельник |
| Serbian | Zeleni kolibri pustinjak |
| Slovak | slnečníček zelený |
| Spanish | Ermitaño Verde |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | Ermitaño Verde |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | Ermitaño Verde |
| Spanish (Panama) | Ermitaño Verde |
| Spanish (Peru) | Ermitaño Verde |
| Spanish (Spain) | Ermitaño verde |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | Ermitaño Verde |
| Swedish | grön eremit |
| Turkish | Yeşil Hermit |
| Ukrainian | Ерміт зелений |
Phaethornis guy (Lesson, 1833)
PROTONYM:
Trochilus Guy
Lesson, 1833. Les Trochilidées ou les Colibris et les Oiseaux-Mouches, suivis d'un Index Général, dans lequel sont décrites et classées méthodiquement toutes les races et espèces du genre Trochilus, p.119,xiv.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Brazil, error = Venezuela.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- PHAETHORNIS
- guy
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Introduction
A relatively large hummingbird, the Green Hermit is found in humid forests and forest edges, small clearings, secondary growth, shrubbery, and plantations with dense vegetation. This species has elongated, white-tipped central tail rectrices, which are prominently featured in displays at communal leks during the breeding season while males energetically compete for territories. There are currently four described subspecies of the Green Hermit.
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Green Hermit
