Indigo Flowerpiercer

Indigo Flowerpiercer
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Diglossopis
Species:	D. indigotica
Binomial name
Diglossopis indigotica (Sclater, 1856)
Synonyms
Diglossa indigotica

The Indigo Flowerpiercer (Diglossopis indigotica) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in humid forest on the lower west Andean slopes in Ecuador and Colombia. Despite its blue plumage, mtDNA indicates this species actually belongs in the genus Diglossa.

References

• BirdLife International 2004. Diglossa indigotica. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.
• Mauck, & Burns (2009). Phylogeny, biogeography, and recurrent evolution of divergent bill types in the nectar-stealing flowerpiercers (Thraupini: Diglossa and Diglossopis). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98 (1): 14-28.

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