Lophotriccus

Lophotriccus is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch in 1884. The type species was subsequently designated as a subspecies of the scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus squamaecrista) by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1884. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" with trikkos which is an unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus is used to denote a tyrant flycatcher. ==Species== The genus contains the following four species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Common name !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Scale-crested pygmy tyrant || Lophotriccus pileatus|| Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela |- |120px ||Double-banded pygmy tyrant||Lophotriccus vitiosus|| Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname. |- |120px ||Long-crested pygmy tyrant||Lophotriccus eulophotes||western Amazon Basin of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. |- |120px ||Helmeted pygmy tyrant||Lophotriccus galeatus||Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. |- |}