Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia variegaticeps) [XC460044]
by id from Reserva del Bicentenario, Zongolica, Veracruz, Mexico (call)
Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia variegaticeps) [XC248562]
by Niels Krabbe from Pichincha: ridge between R\u00edo Mindo and R\u00edo Nambillo, 3 km SE Mindo, Ecuador (call)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into a broadly defined Philydor. Forms a superspecies with Montane Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia striaticollis). Distinctive subspecies temporalis more similar to latter and treated by some authors as a subspecies of it and was formerly considered a separate species, and perhaps better maintained as such until relationships resolved.
Proposed subspecies idoneus from western Panama, described as like nominate but paler (more olivaceous) above and yellowish-olive (not rufescent) below, is regarded as representing individual variation and not diagnosable.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
schaldachi Winker, 1997 - Mountains of south-western Mexico (Guerrero).
variegaticeps (Sclater, 1857) - Mountains from southern Mexico (Caribbean slope southern from Veracruz, Pacific slope southern from Oaxaca) south to western Panama (western Chiriquí).
temporalis (Sclater, PL, 1859) - Western Andes of Colombia (southern from southern Chocó) and western Ecuador (south to western Loja, also coastal cordilleras in western Esmeraldas and south-western Manabí).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet