Pacific coastal region of extreme south-western Costa Rica and Panama (including Coiba I and Cébaco I), northern Colombia along Caribbean coast (including Santa Marta area), and northern Venezuela north of R Orinoco (E, including Margarita I, to Paria Peninsula).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Lance-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceolata) [XC539676]
by Hern\u00e1n Arias from Mariato District, Veraguas Province, Panama (song)
Lance-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceolata) [XC637187]
by Teus Luijendijk from Finca Malambo, Panama (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Genus closely related to Antilophia. All members of present genus suggested by some as forming a superspecies. Has sometimes been treated as conspecific with Long-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia linearis) and Blue-backed Manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola).