Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).
Scaled Antpitta (Grallaria guatimalensis) [XC345861]
by Guy Kirwan from Zumba, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador (song)
Scaled Antpitta (Grallaria guatimalensis) [XC612749]
by Jacob Wijpkema from Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, Pichincha, Parroquia Nanegalito, Nueva Granada, Hacienda Los Yumbos, Ecuador (song)
Subspecies
Subspecies carmelitae and sororia only doubtfully distinct from regulus. Proposed subspecies binfordi from south-central Mexico (Mexico, Distrito Federal and Morelos), said to resemble ochraceiventris but with vertical stripes on breast, possibly valid, but its distinction from latter needs further corroboration. Birds from northern end of range described as subspecies mexicana, but this generally regarded as a synonym of highly variable nominate subspecies.
The following 10 subspecies are recognised:
ochraceiventris Nelson, 1898 - Southern Mexico from Jalisco east to western Hidalgo and from southern Guerrero to southern Oaxaca.
guatimalensis Prévost & Des Murs, 1842 - Eastern and southern Mexico (from north-western Veracruz and northern Oaxaca) south-east to northern Nicaragua.
princeps Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1869 - Costa Rica south to western Panama (Veraguas).
chocoensis Chapman, 1917 - Eastern Panama (eastern Darién) and north-western Colombia (Chocó).
carmelitae Todd, 1915 - Northern Colombia in Santa Marta Mts, and Perijá Mts south to northern Boyacá.
aripoensis Hellmayr & Seilern, 1912 - Trinidad.
regulus Sclater, PL, 1860 - From northern and south-western Colombia (in north, on western slope of eastern Andes in southern César), and on Amazonian slope from western Venezuela (Mérida), south to central Peru (in west, south to Cajamarca), including adjacent eastern lowlands to extreme eastern Ecuador.
sororia von Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1901 - Southern Peru (from Cuzco) south-east to central Bolivia (Santa Cruz).
roraimae Chubb, C, 1921 - Tepuis of southern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil, and recently recorded in western Guyana.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet