South-eastern Brazil (southern Espírito Santo south to Paraná and northern Rio Grande do Sul), eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010) and decreasing.
Status LC
Habitat destruction and degradation through urbanisation, industrialisation, agricultural expansion, colonisation and associated road-building, is the main threat.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Blackish-blue Seedeater (Amaurospiza moesta) [XC16662]
by Adrian Eisen Rupp from Santa Maria do Tocantins (08\u00ba 47\u0092 53\u0094 S, 47\u00ba 24\u0092 32\u0094 W, Brazil (call)
Blackish-blue Seedeater (Amaurospiza moesta) [XC614797]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Palmeira, Paran\u00e1, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Molecular data indicate that genus may belong in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae), rather than in present one.