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Proposed subspecies obscurius (described on basis of a single specimen from south-west of Sola de Vega, in south-western Oaxaca) appears to differ little from rubricatum, with which it is synonymized.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• grisior (Bonaparte, 1850)   -  Extreme south-eastern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, in western Mexico.
• kieneri (Bonaparte, 1850)   -  Extreme southern Sonora, Sinaloa, western Durango, Nayarit, western Jalisco and Colima, in western Mexico.
• rubricata (Cabanis, 1851)   -  Central and south-western Mexico from southern Guanajuato and Michoacán east to Morelos, south-western Puebla, Guerrero and western Oaxaca.
• obscurior Phillips, 1966   -  Arid Pacific slope of north-western Mexico (south-eastern Sonora and north-eastern Sinaloa).

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