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Proposed subspecies ambiguus is synonymous with incommodus.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

• polystictus Todd, 1942   -  Coastal mountains of northern Venezuela (Carabobo to Miranda).
• discifer (Heine, 1863)   -  North-western Venezuela (Zulia and Falcón to Táchira and western Barinas) and north-eastern Colombia (Norte de Santander).
• underwoodii (Lesson, 1832)   -  Eastern Andes of Colombia.
• incommodus (Kleinschmidt, O, 1943)   -  Western and central Andes of Colombia.
• melanantherus (Jardine, 1851)   -  Both slopes of Andes of Ecuador.
• peruanus (Gould, 1849)   -  Eastern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru.
• annae (Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1894)   -  Central and southern Peru. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rufous-booted Racquet-tail (Ocreatus addae).
• addae (Bourcier, 1846)   -  Bolivia (Yungas of La Paz to Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rufous-booted Racquet-tail (Ocreatus addae).

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