Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) [XC45133]
by Johan Chaves from La Selva, Sarapiqui, Heredia, Costa Rica (call)
Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) [XC641735]
by Scott Olmstead from Parque Nacional San Lorenzo, Col\u00f3n, Panam\u00e1, Panama (call)
Subspecies
This genus and Dacnis were previously regarded as members of a separate family, Coerebidae, but later placed in present family on basis of similarities in skull anatomy. Molecular phylogenies indicate that the two genera are sisters and form a monophyletic group with Tersina. Thought to form a superspecies with Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) and in the past sometimes treated as conspecific, but the two are sympatric in extreme eastern Panama and adjacent north-western Colombia.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
lucidus (Sclater & Salvin, 1859) - Foothills of Gulf-Caribbean slope of southern Mexico (eastern Chiapas) through north-central Guatemala, Belize (Cockscomb Mts) and northern Honduras to north-eastern Nicaragua.
isthmicus Bangs, 1907 - Costa Rica (entire eastern slope, and Pacific slope in San José) south to eastern Panama and adjacent extreme north-western Colombia.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet