Speckled Hummingbird

Adelomyia melanogenys

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Apodiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Adelomyia
eBird Code
spehum1

Subspecies (9)

  • Adelomyia melanogenys aeneosticta

    mountains of central and northern Venezuela

  • Adelomyia melanogenys cervina

    western and central Andes of Colombia

  • Adelomyia melanogenys chlorospila

    Andes of eastern Peru (Amazonas to Cusco)

  • Adelomyia melanogenys connectens

    southern Colombia (upper Magdalena Valley in Huila)

  • Adelomyia melanogenys debellardiana

    Serranía de Perijá (Colombia/Venezuela border)

  • Adelomyia melanogenys inornata

    Andes of southeastern Peru (Puno), Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina (Jujuy and Salta)

  • Adelomyia melanogenys maculata

    west slope of the Andes of southwestern Colombia, Ecuador, and northern Peru

  • Adelomyia melanogenys melanogenys

    Andes of Venezuela and east slope of the Andes from Colombia to northern Peru

  • Adelomyia melanogenys sabinae

    west slope of the eastern Andes of Colombia (Santander and Boyacá)

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.