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Genus appears not to represent a monophyletic grouping, but traditional arrangement maintained pending further phylogenetic study. Affinities uncertain; possibly not closely related to other members of genus. Taxon named as stictothorax (lower R Tapajós, in Brazil) considered a separate species by some authors and a subspecies of present species by others, but recordings and specimens obtained near type locality suggest that it is a plumage variant of subspecies melanura. Further, described subspecies obscurata (eastern Peru, western Brazil) and griseiventris (western Bolivia) considered inseparable from latter, which itself highly variable. Re-examination of populations south of R Amazon, employing other data (e.g. genetic) in addition to morphological studies, is required.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• metae (Meyer de Schauensee, 1947)   -  Central Colombia (Meta, western Guaviare).
• atrothorax (Boddaert, 1783)   -  Southern Venezuela (southern Bolí­var, Amazonas), extreme east-central Colombia (Guainí­a, Vaupés), the Guianas and northern Amazonian Brazil (both banks of upper and east of lower R Negro, east to Amapá).
• tenebrosa (Zimmer, JT, 1932)   -  North of Amazon in eastern Ecuador (Napo, Pastaza), north-eastern Peru (Loreto) and northern Brazil (west of lower R Negro).
• maynana (Taczanowski, 1882)   -  North-central Peru south of R Marañón (Loreto west of R Huallaga).
• melanura (Ménétries, 1835)   -  South of R Amazon in eastern Peru (east of R Huallaga), locally in western and central Brazil (upper regions of tributaries of R Amazon and along lower R Tapajós, and east to southern Pará and south-central Mato Grosso) and northern and central Bolivia.

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