Pampa (bird)
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| Rufous sabrewing (Pampa rufa) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Trochilini |
| Genus: | Pampa Reichenbach, 1854 |
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Pampa is a genus of birds in the hummingbird family Trochilidae. These species are resident in northern Middle America.
The genus Pampa was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate a single species, Pampa campyloptera Reichenbach, 1854, which is the type species of the genus by monotypy. Reichenbach's binomial name was a replacement for Ornismya pampa Lesson, 1832, now a subspecies of the wedge-tailed sabrewing.[1][2] Also in 1854 the entomologist Francis Walker introduced the name Pampa for a genus of Lepidoptera in his List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum which, according to Charles Davies Sherborn, was published on 11 February 1854.[3][4] If Reichenbach's genus Pampa was published after this date, then under the rules of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the name Pampa Reichenbach, 1854, is a junior homonym and becomes invalid.[5] Another genus Platystylopterus was introduced by Reichenbach in 1854 on the same page as his genus Pampa. The type species was fixed in 1855 by George Gray as Campylopterus rufus Lesson, 1840, the rufous sabrewing.[1][6]
Species
The genus contains two species.[2]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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_Finca_El_Pilar_2.jpg) | Rufous sabrewing | Pampa rufa |  |
 | Wedge-tailed sabrewing | Pampa curvipennis |  |
These two species were formerly placed in the genus Campylopterus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Campylopterus was polyphyletic.[7] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, these species were moved to the resurrected genus Pampa that had been introduced in 1854 by Ludwig Reichenbach.[2][8]
References
- 1 2 Reichenbach, Ludwig (1854). "Aufzählung der Colibris Oder Trochilideen in ihrer wahren natürlichen Verwandtschaft, nebst Schlüssel ihrer Synonymik". Journal für Ornithologie (Supplement) (in German). 1: 1–24 [11].
- 1 2 3 AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 22 April 2026.
- ↑ Walker, Francis (1854). List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. p. 238.
- ↑ Sherborn, C. Davies (1934). "XXII.—Dates of publication of catalogues of Natural History (post 1850) issued by the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 13 (74): 308-312 [311]. doi:10.1080/00222933408654812.
- ↑ "Chapter 12: Homonymy. Art. 52.2". International Code Of Zoological Nomenclature (4th ed.). International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1999.
- ↑ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 139.
- ↑ McGuire, J.; Witt, C.; Remsen, J.V.; Corl, A.; Rabosky, D.; Altshuler, D.; Dudley, R. (2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds". Current Biology. 24 (8): 910–916. Bibcode:2014CBio...24..910M. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.016. PMID 24704078.
- ↑ Stiles, F.G.; Remsen, J.V. Jr.; Mcguire, J.A. (2017). "The generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): Reconciling taxonomy with phylogeny". Zootaxa. 4353 (3): 401–424. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4353.3.1. PMID 29245495.
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