9, see text Chrysuronia is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae, all of which are native to Central and South America.

The genus Chrysuronia was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

[1] Bonaparte did not specify a type species but this was designated as the golden-tailed sapphire in 1855 by George Robert Gray.

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genera Amazilia and Lepidopyga were polyphyletic.

[5] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, Chrysuronia was broadened to include species that had previous been placed in Amazilia, Hylocharis and Lepidopyga.