See text Saucerottia is a genus of birds in the family Trochilidae, or hummingbirds.

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Amazilia was polyphyletic.

[1] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, these species were placed in the resurrected genus Saucerottia.

[2][3] The genus had been introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the steely-vented hummingbird as the type species.

The epithet was coined in 1846 by Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier to honour the French physician and ornithologist Antoine Constant Saucerotte.