tenellus Cabanis, 1862 - Eastern Honduras, Nicaragua, both slopes of Costa Rica (except north-west) and Panama, and extreme north-western Colombia.
cupreicauda (Chapman, 1914) - Western Colombia and western Ecuador.
rufus Gmelin, 1788 - Eastern Venezuela and the Guianas to northern Brazil (R Negro region and Amapá).
sulphureus von Spix, 1824 - South-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, north-eastern Peru and western Brazil.
amazonicus Todd, 1943 - North-central Brazil (lower Amazon Valley).
chrysochloros Pelzeln, 1856 - Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina and eastern and south-eastern Brazil (Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul, and including Mato Grosso); presumably this subspecies in north-eastern Brazil (Alagoas).