Blue-throated Mountaingem
Lampornis clemenciae
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae
- Genus
- Lampornis
- eBird Code
- buthum
Subspecies (3)
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Lampornis clemenciae bessophilus
breeds mountains of southwestern USA (southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico) and northwestern Mexico (south to Durango)
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Lampornis clemenciae clemenciae
mountains of eastern and central Mexico (Central Plateau and Sierra Madre Oriental, southward to Oaxaca)
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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)
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.