''Hemitriccus'' is a genus of small

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s in the tyrant flycatcher family

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. They are commonly known as tody-tyrants or bamboo tyrants, but the former name is (or was) also shared with several members of the genus ''

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''. Several species from the genus ''Hemitriccus'' are very similar, and consequently best separated by their voice.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Hemitriccus'' was introduced in 1860 by the German ornithologists

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and

Ferdinand Heine Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine (9 March 1809 in Halberstadt – 28 March 1894) was a German ornithologist and collector. Heine had one of the largest private collection of birds in the mid-19th century. The collection now housed at the Heineanum ...

to accommodate a single species, ''Muscicapa diops''

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, 1822, the drab-breasted bamboo tyrant. The genus name combines the

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''hēmi-'' meaning "half-" or "small" with ''trikkos'', a word for an unidentified small bird that in ornithology signifies a tyrant flycatcher.

Species

The genus contains the following 22 species:

References

Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Tyrannidae-stub