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Forms a superspecies with Natterer's Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus stictocephalus), Bolivian Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus sticturus), Planalto Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus pelzelni) and Sooretama Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus ambiguus) and all formerly considered conspecific, with Black-crowned Antshrike (Thamnophilus atrinucha) traditionally included too. Subspecies leucogaster (with huallagae) has sometimes been treated as a separate species. Subspecies huallagae was originally included in Amazonian Antshrike (Thamnophilus amazonicus).

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• punctatus (Shaw, 1809)   -  Eastern and southern Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolí­var, Sucre, Monagas, Delta Amacuro), the Guianas, and Brazil north of R Amazon and east of R Negro (in north-eastern Amazonas, Roraima, northern Pará, Amapá); sight records from extreme eastern Amazonian Colombia (Guianí­a, Vaupés) probably this subspecies.
• interpositus Hartert & Goodson, 1917   -  Eastern base of Andes in western Venezuela (Táchira, Apure, Barinas) and Colombia (Boyacá, Meta, western Caquetá).
• huallagae Carriker, 1934   -  R Huallaga drainage in northern Peru (San Martí­n).
• leucogaster Hellmayr, 1924   -  R Marañón drainage in extreme southern Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe) and northern Peru (Amazonas, Cajamarca).

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