Nyctiprogne vielliardi (Lencioni-Neto, 1994)

Sigurðsson, Snorri & Cracraft, Joel, 2014, Deciphering the diversity and history of New World nightjars (Aves: Caprimulgidae) using molecular phylogenetics, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170 (3), pp. 506-545 : 541

NYCTIPROGNE VIELLIARDI (LENCIONI- NETO, 1994)

Definition

Previously Chordeiles vielliardi . It is moved from Chordeiles into Nyctiprogne . It is the sister species of N. leucopyga Spix, 1825 .

Diagnosis

Similar to N. leucopyga , but lacks white tail markings. Very few specimens are known, hence the information on morphology is scarce.

Comments

Genetic evidence in this study shows that C. vielliardi is not related to other species in Chordeiles , but belongs in Nyctiprogne ( Fig. 6 ), as suggested by Cleere & Nurney (1998).

Figures

Figure 6. A phylogeny of the genera Lurocalis, Nyctidromus, and Nyctiprogne within the South American clade, based on a maximum-likelihood (ML) analysis of a concatenated 5298-bp molecular data set. ML bootstrap values higher than 60 and Bayesian posterior probability values higher than 0.95 are displayed on the nodes. Names on the tree represent current taxonomy; names on the right represent those resulting from this revision (see text).