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Proposed subspecies aimophilum (described from Fort Davis, Texas) treated as a synonym of texanum.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

• mesoleucum (Baird, SF, 1854)   -  Southern USA from Arizona east through New Mexico and western Texas, and northern Mexico south to northern Sonora (except north-western coast) south to 30° north and north-western Chihuahua south to 31° north.
• mesata (Oberholser, 1937)   -  South-eastern Colorado, north-eastern New Mexico and north-western Oklahoma.
• texana (van Rossem, 1934)   -  Western and central Texas south to northern Mexico (north-western Coahuila).
• intermedia (Nelson, 1899)   -  Central and southern Sonora south to northern Sinaloa (El Fuerte and Yecorato).
• jamesi (Townsend, CH, 1923)   -  Tiburón I, off central-western Sonora, Mexico.
• perpallida (van Rossem, 1934)   -  West-central Mexico in Sierra Madre Occidental and eastern foothills (from Chihuahua south through Durango to Nayarit, northern Jalisco and south-western Zacatecas).
• potosina (Ridgway, 1899)   -  Central Mexico from northern Coahuila, western Nuevo León and south-western Tamaulipas south to eastern Zacatecas, western and central San Luis Potosí­, north-eastern Jalisco, Guanajuato and central and southern Querétaro.
• fusca (Swainson, 1827)   -  Nayarit south to Colima, east through Jalisco and Michoacán, to Morelos, Mexico City, western Veracruz and north-central Guerrero.
• campoi (Moore, RT, 1949)   -  Hidalgo, Puebla and western Veracruz, in eastern Mexico.
• toroi (Moore, RT, 1942)   -  Tlaxcala east to western Veracruz, south to Puebla and northern Oaxaca.

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