Leptocoma

Leptocoma is a genus of sunbirds found from tropical South Asia to Papua New Guinea. Its members are sometimes included in Nectarinia.

The sunbirds are a group of very small Old World passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings. Most species can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird, but usually perch to feed.

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1850 with the type species as Nectarinia hasseltii Temminck 1825, a junior synonym of Certhia brasiliana Gmelin, JF, 1788, Van Hasselt's sunbird. The name Leptocoma combines the Ancient Greek words leptos "delicate" or "fine" and komē "hair".

Its six species in the genus are:

Male	Female	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
File:Irdsb 09201.jpg	File:Female Purple-rumped sunbird in the backyard of an empty plot in Judicial Layout, Bangalore. 29 March 2016.jpg	Purple-rumped sunbird	Leptocoma zeylonica	India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
File:Male Crimson Backed Sunbird, crop.jpg	File:Crimson-backed Sunbird.jpg	Crimson-backed sunbird	Leptocoma minima	Western Ghats of India
File:Leptocoma sperata juliae 69116825, crop.jpg	File:Leptocoma sperata juliae, femina.jpg	Purple-throated sunbird	Leptocoma sperata	the Philippines
File:Leptocoma brasiliana (male) -Singapore-8.jpg	File:Coitus sequence 7 - satisfaction - Flickr - Lip Kee.jpg	Van Hasselt's sunbird	Leptocoma brasiliana	Northeast India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia
File:Black Sunbird from Gardenia, Tomohon, crop.jpg	File:LeptocomaaspasiaFemale, crop.jpg	Black sunbird	Leptocoma aspasia	eastern Indonesia and New Guinea
File:Copper-throated Sunbird.jpg	File:Leptocoma calcostetha 101693876.jpg	Copper-throated sunbird	Leptocoma calcostetha	Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam

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