Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
South-eastern Colombia (from eastern base of Andes in Caquetá, Vaupés, and Guainía) east to southern Venezuela (Amazonas and north-western and central Bolívar), Guyana, Suriname and possibly French Guiana, south through eastern Ecuador to north-eastern Peru (south to Pasco, Huánuco and Ucayali) and western Brazil (east to eastern Amazonas and, south of R Amazon, to northern Rondônia and extreme north-western Mato Grosso).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Short-billed Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes nitidus) [XC257131]
by id from Loreto: 3 km SE of Jeberos, Peru (call)
Short-billed Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes nitidus) [XC592756]
by Jerome Fischer from Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Rio Javar\u00ed, AM, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
This genus and Dacnis were previously regarded as members of a separate family, Coerebidae, but later placed in present family on basis of similarities in skull anatomy. Molecular phylogenies indicate that the two genera are sisters and form a monophyletic group with Tersina.