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Proposed subspecies peruviana synonymous with smaragdinicollis.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

• districta Bangs, 1899   -  Santa Marta and Perijá Mts (north-eastern Colombia).
• chloropogon (Cabanis & Heine, 1860)   -  Caribbean coastal range (northern Venezuela).
• oreopola Todd, 1913   -  Andes of Venezuela (Lara, Trujillo, Mérida).
• tyrianthina (Loddiges, 1832)   -  North-western Venezuela (south-western Táchira) through all Andean chains of Colombia and eastern and southern Ecuador to extreme northern Peru.
• quitensis Gould, 1861   -  North-western Ecuador.
• septentrionalis Hartert, 1899   -  Andes of Peru (west of R Marañón).
• smaragdinicollis (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1838)   -  Eastern Andes of Peru and northern Bolivia.

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