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Cypseloides
	Great dusky swift (Cypseloides senex)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Apodidae
Subfamily:	Cypseloidinae
Genus:	Cypseloides; Streubel, 1848
Type species
	Hemiprocne fumigata (sooty swift); Streubel, 1848
Species
	See article

Cypseloides is a genus of swifts in the family Apodidae. It contains eight described species. They occur mainly in Central and South America. The exception being the American black swift, which has a wide range into North America.

Taxonomy

The genus Cypseloides was introduced in 1848 by the German naturist August Vollrath Streubel.^[1] The type species was subsequently designated by Philip Sclater in 1865 as the sooty swift.^[2]^[3] The name combines the genus Cypselus introduced by Johann Illiger in 1811 and the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".^[4]

The genus contains eight species:^[5]

Spot-fronted swift (Cypseloides cherriei)
White-chinned swift (Cypseloides cryptus)
Sooty swift (Cypseloides fumigatus)
White-chested swift (Cypseloides lemosi)
Rothschild's swift (Cypseloides rothschildi)
Great dusky swift (Cypseloides senex)
White-fronted swift (Cypseloides storeri)
American black swift (Cypseloides niger)

References

^ Streubel, August Vollrath (1848). "Die Cypseliden des Berliner Museums". Isis von Oken (in German). Cols 348–373 [366].
^ Sclater, Philip Lutley (1865). "Notes on the genera and species of Cypselidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 593–617 [614].
^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 242.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Owlet-nightjars, treeswifts & swifts". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 Jul 2022.