Saucerottia

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Saucerottia is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. The species now placed in Saucerottia used to be in the genus Amazilia. A 2014 genetic study showed that Amazilia was polyphyletic, so some species were moved to the resurrected genus Saucerottia to better reflect their evolutionary relationships.

The genus Saucerottia was introduced in 1850 by French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte, with the steely-vented hummingbird as the type species (then named Trochilus saucerrottei). The name Saucerottia comes from the species epithet saucerrottei, coined in 1846 by Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier to honor French physician and ornithologist Antoine Constant Saucerotte.

The genus contains eleven species, including the copper-rumped hummingbird (Saucerottia tobaci).