Order: Passeriformes | Family: Vireonidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Tumbes, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Status: The Lesser Greenlet is fairly common but very local found only in the humid and semi-deciduous forests of Tumbes where it is known to range up to 700 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Verdillo Menor.
Sub-species: Lesser Greenlet (Hylophilus decurtatus minor), Berlepsch and Taczanowski, 1884.
Meaning of Name: Hylophilus: Gr. hule= woodland, forest and philos= lover. decurtatus: L. curtus= short; decurtatus= mutilated, cut off.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.