Lophotriccus

Lophotriccus is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch in 1884. The title page gives the year as 1883 but the issue was not published until 1884. The type species was subsequently designated as a subspecies of the scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus squamaecrista) by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1884. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" with trikkos which is an unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus is used to denote a tyrant flycatcher. Species The genus contains the following four species: Image Common name Scientific name Distribution Scale-crested pygmy tyrant Lophotriccus pileatus Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela Double-banded pygmy tyrantLophotriccus vitiosus Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname. Long-crested pygmy tyrantLophotriccus eulophoteswestern Amazon Basin of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. Helmeted pygmy tyrantLophotriccus galeatusBrazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

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