Discosura letitiae Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852
Coppery thorntail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Popelairia letitiae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852); Gouldia letitiae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852)
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1852 or before; 1852 (Martin et al., 2023)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Bolivia (more likely) or Brazil (less likely)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
2 preserved specimens exist.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bourcier, J. and Mulsant, E. (1852). Description de quelques nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Lyon 4: 139-144.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Discosura letitiae. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 August 2013.
Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P., Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, A., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. A. & Wege, D. C. 1992. Threatened birds of the Americas: the ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book (Third edition, part 2). International Council for Bird Preservation, Cambridge, U.K.
Graves, G. R. (1999). Taxonomic notes on hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae) 2. Popelairia letitiae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852) is a valid species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 112: 804-812.
Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]
Mittermeier, John C. et al. (2022). Fantastic lost birds and how you can help find them: an updated gap analysis for the Neotropical avifauna. Neotropical Birding 31: 25-32.
Tobias, Joseph A., Butchart, Stuart H. M. and Collar, Nigel J. (2006). Lost and found: a gap analysis for the Neotropical avifauna. Neotropical Birding [2006]: 4-22.