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Molecular data indicate that genus may belong in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae), rather than in present one. Subspecies relicta sometimes treated as a separate species.

Proposed subspecies grandior (described from Peña Blanca, in eastern Nicaragua) synonymized with nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• relicta (Griscom, 1934)   -  Mountains of Guerrero, Morelos and Oaxaca, in south-western Mexico. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Slate-blue Seedeater (Amaurospiza relicta).
• concolor Cabanis, 1861   -  Southern Mexico (Chiapas), Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western and central Panama.
• aequatorialis Sharpe, 1888   -  South-western Colombia (Nariño), western and central Ecuador (south-western Manabí­ and western Guayas; western slope of Andes southern locally to Loja) and northern Peru (Cajamarca, possibly also Piura). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Ecuadorian Seedeater (Amaurospiza aequatorialis).

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