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Sometimes treated as conspecific with Rufous-breasted Wren (Pheugopedius rutilus) and Maranon Wren (Pheugopedius sclateri), despite great differences in plumage and vocalizations. In past, suggested as possibly being conspecific with Happy Wren (Pheugopedius felix).

Proposed subspecies varians (Pacific slope from Chiapas, in southern Mexico, south to El Salvador) and petersi (northern Honduras south to northern Costa Rica) are considered indistinguishable from umbrinus.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• microstictus Griscom, 1930   -  North-eastern Mexico (south-eastern Nuevo León and central Tamaulipas south to eastern San Luis Potosí­ and northern Veracruz).
• maculipectus (Lafresnaye, 1845)   -  Eastern Mexico (Veracruz south to Puebla and northern Oaxaca).
• canobrunneus (Ridgway, 1887)   -  South-eastern Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula), northern Belize and northern Guatemala (northern Petén).
• umbrinus (Ridgway, 1887)   -  Southern Mexico (north-eastern Oaxaca, Tabasco, Chiapas), southern Belize, Guatemala (except Petén), El Salvador, northern and southern Honduras, and Caribbean slope of Nicaragua and northern Costa Rica.
• petersi Griscom, 1930   -  Northern Honduras to northern Costa Rica.
• varians ?   -  Southern Mexico (Pacific slope of Chiapas), Guatemala and El Salvador.

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