Blue-throated Mountaingem

Subspecies (3)

• Lampornis clemenciae bessophilus

  breeds mountains of southwestern USA (southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico) and northwestern Mexico (south to Durango)

• Lampornis clemenciae clemenciae

  mountains of eastern and central Mexico (Central Plateau and Sierra Madre Oriental, southward to Oaxaca)

• Lampornis clemenciae phasmorus

  breeds southwestern USA (Chisos Mountains, Texas); populations in west-central Nuevo León (Mexico) possibly also this subspecies. Migratory, but nonbreeding range unknown)