Belongs within: Trochilinae.
Coeligena is a genus of hummingbirds with a straight bill that is longer than the head, feathered tarsi, and broad white tips on the lateral tail feathers.
<==Coeligena Lesson 1833 (see below for synonymy)B94
| i. s.: C. eosH11
|--+--C. coeligenaBKB15
| `--+--C. prunelleiBKB15
| `--C. wilsoniBKB15
`--+--C. torquataBKB15
`--+--C. irisBKB15
`--+--C. violiferBKB15
`--+--C. phalerataBKB15
`--+--+--C. bonaparteiBKB15
| `--C. heliantheaBKB15
`--+--C. lutetiaeBKB15
`--C. orinaBKB15
Coeligena Lesson 1833 [incl. Bourcieria Bonaparte 1850, Diphlogena Gould 1854, Heliancthea Gould 1848, Helianthea Gould 1848; Bourcieriinae, Coeligeninae, Diphlogeninae, Heliancthininae, Heliantheinae]B94
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.
[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.
[H11] Hilty, S. L. 2011. Family Thraupidae (tanagers). In: Hoyo, J. del, A. Elliott & D. A. Christie (eds) Handbook of the Birds of the World vol. 16. Tanagers to New World Blackbirds pp. 46–329. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona.