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Proposed taxon hondae (based on two specimens from upper Magdalena Valley, in Colombia) appears undiagnosable and included within subspecies giraudii.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• mayensis van Rossem, 1938   -  Northern Yucatán Peninsula (south-eastern Mexico).
• chrysater (Lesson, 1844)   -  Central and southern Yucatán Peninsula (south to Belize) and southern Mexico (inland southern Veracruz, extreme eastern Oaxaca and Chiapas) south to northern Nicaragua.
• giraudii Cassin, 1848   -  Central Panama (on both coasts) to north-western Venezuela (Miranda), central and south-western Colombia and extreme north-western Ecuador (Esmeraldas).
• hondae Chapman, 1914   -  Colombia (upper Magdalena Valley).

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