Green-fronted Lancebill © flickr.com

Two proposed subspecies, rectirostris (western Andes of Colombia and north-western Ecuador) and grisea (north-western Bolivia), now usually subsumed into nominate subspecies. The former differs only in bill averaging longer, but with wide overlap, and the latter based on characters of an immature male, birds of this age being indistinguishable from those of nominate. Species name sometimes misspelt ludoviciae.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• veraguensis Salvin, 1867   -  North-central Costa Rica to western Panama.
• ludovicae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1847)   -  Extreme eastern Panama (Cerro Tacarcuna), Colombia and western Venezuela south through Andes to north-western Bolivia (eastern slope only from central Ecuador southwards).

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