Rufous-breasted Spinetail © flickr.com

Proposed subspecies furtiva, described from Caribbean lowlands of Mexico, is not diagnosable.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• erythrothorax Sclater, 1855   -  Caribbean slope from south-eastern Mexico (southern Veracruz and Yucatán Peninsula south to northern Oaxaca and Tabasco) south to Guatemala, Belize and north-western Honduras.
• pacifica Griscom, 1930   -  Pacific lowlands of south-western Mexico (southern Chiapas), Guatemala and El Salvador.
• furtiva Bangs & Peters, JL, 1927   -  Lowlands of south-eastern Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco).

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