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Birds of Brazil south of Amazon formerly awarded subspecies cyanogenys. Two highly doubtful forms known only from trade skins (one and two respectively) from Bahia: "Chlorostilbon subcaeruleus" is probably a hyperchromatic aberration of Blue-chinned Sapphire (Chlorostilbon notatus) and "Chlorostilbon hypocyaneus" may be a mutant of Blue-chinned Sapphire (Chlorostilbon notatus), or hybrid between Blue-chinned Sapphire (Chlorostilbon notatus) and White-chinned Sapphire (Hylocharis cyanus), or possibly even a valid species. Also, "Eucephala scapulata", known from single specimen from French Guiana, is probably a hybrid of Blue-chinned Sapphire (Chlorostilbon notatus) with Fork-tailed Woodnymph (Thalurania furcata).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• notatus (G. C. Reich, 1793)   -  North-eastern Colombia through northern and eastern Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Guianas to eastern Brazil (Pará to Bahia).
• puruensis (Riley, 1913)   -  North-western Brazil (north of Amazon, east to mouths of R Trombetas and R Negro) to south-eastern Colombia and north-eastern Peru (upper R Ucayali).
• obsoleta (Zimmer, 1950)   -  North-eastern Peru on lower R Ucayali near mouth of R Napo, and western probably to mouth of R Huallaga.

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