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Proposed subspecies olallae included within nominate.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• spengeli (von Spix, 1824)   -  Northern Colombia. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Turquoise-winged Parrotlet (Forpus spengeli).
• crassirostris (Taczanowski, 1883)   -  South-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northern Peru to western Brazil. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Large-billed Parrotlet (Forpus crassirostris).
• flavescens (Salvadori, 1891)   -  South-eastern Peru and eastern Bolivia.
• flavissimus Hellmayr, 1929   -  North-eastern Brazil.
• vividus (Ridgway, 1888)   -  Eastern and south-eastern Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina.
• xanthopterygius (von Spix, 1824)   -  Bolivia (and south-eastern Peru?) east to north-eastern Brazil, and south to Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina.

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