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Perhaps a member of a superspecies, along with Vermiculated Screech-Owl (Megascops vermiculatus), Yungas Screech-Owl (Megascops hoyi), Black-capped Screech-Owl (Megascops atricapilla) and Long-tufted Screech-Owl (Megascops sanctaecatarinae). Sometimes considered conspecific with Long-tufted Screech-Owl (Megascops sanctaecatarinae). Has been treated as conspecific with Vermiculated Screech-Owl (Megascops vermiculatus), but vocally distinct. Subspecies tomlini, fuscus and thompsoni possibly inadequately differentiated to merit subspecific status.

Proposed subspecies pettingilli and peteni included in hastatus and nominate guatemalae respectively.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

• tomlini (Moore, RT, 1937)   -  North-western Mexico (southern Sonora and south-western Chihuahua south to Sinaloa).
• hastatus Ridgway, 1887   -  South-western Sinaloa to Oaxaca.
• cassini (Ridgway, 1878)   -  Eastern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas and northern Veracruz).
• fuscus (Moore, RT & Peters, JL, 1939)   -  Veracruz.
• thompsoni Cole, 1906   -  Yucatán Peninsula and Cozumel I.
• guatemalae (Sharpe, 1875)   -  South-eastern Mexico (southern Veracruz and north-eastern Oaxaca) to Honduras.
• dacrysistactus (Moore, RT & Peters, JL, 1939)   -  Northern Nicaragua.
• vermiculatus Ridgway, 1887   -  North-eastern Costa Rica to north-western Colombia, northern Venezuela.

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