Violet-fronted brilliant
| Violet-fronted brilliant | |
|---|---|
| male in eastern Ecuador | |
| female from Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Heliodoxa |
| Species: | H. leadbeateri |
| Binomial name | |
| Heliodoxa leadbeateri (Bourcier, 1843) | |
The violet-fronted brilliant (Heliodoxa leadbeateri) is a species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", tribe Heliantheini in subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.