Species profile
Coppery Thorntail
Discosura letitiae
Quick answer
Known from three specimens ca 1852 labeled from “Bolivia”
- Scientific name
- Discosura letitiae
- Family
- Trochilidae
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Genus
- Discosura
- Conservation status
- Data Deficient
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