Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes) [XC837612]
by Mateus Gon\u00e7alves Santos from C\u00f3rdoba (near Santa Ana del Tachira), Cordoba, T\u00e1chira, Venezuela (call, song)
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes) [XC520817]
by Adrian Eisen Rupp from PNN Chiribiquete, r\u00edo Mesay Puerto abeja, Colombia (?)
Subspecies
Has been placed in family Coerebidae in the past, although more recently in present family on basis of skull morphology. Molecular-genetic data indicate that this species is embedded within the tanagers, but do not support a close relationship to Dacnis or Cyanerpes. Genetic evidence does indicate close relationship to Golden-collared Honeycreeper (Iridophanes pulcherrimus) (placed variously in Chlorophanes and Tangara). Described taxon Chlorophanes purpurascens, known from one specimen from "Caracas" (Venezuela) and once regarded as a distinct species, now believed to be a hybrid Chlorophanes - unknown taxon. Subspecies guatemalensis doubtfully distinct and is retained pending review.
The following 7 subspecies are recognised:
guatemalensis Sclater, PL, 1861 - Southern Mexico (Gulf-Caribbean slope from Oaxaca and Chiapas) south to eastern Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
argutus Bangs & Barbour, 1922 - Extreme eastern Honduras, eastern Nicaragua, and on both sides of Costa Rica and Panama south to north-western Colombia (northern Chocó south to Baudó Mts).
exsul von Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884 - South-western Colombia (Pacific coast from Valle del Cauca) south to south-western Ecuador.
subtropicalis Todd, 1924 - Colombia (on slopes of all three Andean ranges), Sierra de Perijá, and western base of Andes in Venezuela (Táchira and Mérida).
spiza (Linnaeus, 1758) - Venezuela (coastal cordillera from Carabobo east to Sucre and northern Monagas; eastern base of Andes from Barinas south to Táchira; and area south of R Orinoco), Trinidad, the Guianas, extreme eastern Colombia (R Negro-R Guainía) and northern Brazil (eastern from R Uaupés and, south of R Amazon, from middle R Purús east to Pará and coast of Maranhío).
caerulescens Cassin, 1865 - Colombia (Cauca and Magdalena Valleys, and eastern base of eastern Andes from Arauca) south through eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru to central Bolivia, and eastern in west-central Brazil to northern Mato Grosso.
axillaris Zimmer, JT, 1929 - Coastal eastern and south-eastern Brazil (Pernambuco south to Santa Catarina).