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In Mexico, proposed subspecies sinaloa (described from southern Sinaloa), pallida (from Etzatlán, in Jalisco), disjuncta (from San Gabriel Mixtepec, in southern Oaxaca) and cinerea (from Cerro de la Gineta, in south-western Chiapas) are all treated as synonyms of nominate, and newmani (from east of Ciudad del Maiz, in San Luis Potosí­) is considered synonymous with pyrgitoides; gigas (from Nebaj, 80 km north of Quiche, in south-western Guatemala) is synonymized with pectoralis.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

• antonensis van Rossem, 1942   -  Sierra de San Antonio, in north-central Sonora, in north-western Mexico.
• mcleodii Brewster, 1888   -  North-western Mexico from eastern Sonora and western Chihuahua south to northern Sinaloa and north-western Durango.
• rufescens (Swainson, 1827)   -  Western and southern Mexico from southern Sinaloa south to Jalisco, Colima, Guerrero, southern Oaxaca and south-western Chiapas, and east to Guanajuato, México and southern Puebla.
• pyrgitoides (Lafresnaye, 1839)   -  Eastern and south-eastern Mexico from southern Tamaulipas and eastern San Luis Potosí­ south through eastern Puebla and Veracruz to northern Oaxaca and northern and central Chiapas, and south to Honduras, northern and central El Salvador and north-western Nicaragua.
• pectoralis Dickey & van Rossem, 1927   -  Southern Mexico (Chiapas) and central and southern Guatemala south to Honduras and El Salvador.
• discolor Ridgway, 1888   -  Northern Honduras and north-eastern Nicaragua.
• hypaethra Bangs, 1909   -  Pacific slope of Guanacaste Cordillera, in north-western Costa Rica.

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