Doricha is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae that are found in Central America.
Taxonomy The genus Doricha was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the slender sheartail which is thus the type species. The genus name comes from an ancient Greek courtesan.
A 2014 molecular phylogenetic study by Jimmy McGuire and collaborators found that the genus Doricha was sister to the genus Calothorax.
The genus contains the following two species:
Male Female Common name Scientific name DistributionSlender sheartailDoricha enicuraMexican sheartailDoricha eliza
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