Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) [XC549903]
by Luis Eduardo Vidal Salgado from Finca San Jorge, Morelia\/Caquet\u00e1, Colombia (call)
Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) [XC493829]
by Brice de la Croix from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
Sometimes placed in a separate genus Chrysoptilus with the other "forest flickers" Black-necked Woodpecker (Colaptes atricollis) and Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros). May form a superspecies with Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros). Other named subspecies are lutescens (eastern Darién), not reliably distinct from ujhelyii; "notatus" (Colombia), known only from unique type, possibly an aberrant punctipectus; and speciosus (eastern Peru) and rubidipectus (north-eastern Brazil north of Amazon), both considered indistinguishable from guttatus.
ujhelyii (Madarász, 1912) - Eastern Panama (eastern Darién) and northern Colombia.
zuliae (Cory, 1915) - North-western Venezuela.
punctipectus (Cabanis & Heine, 1863) - Eastern Colombia and most of Venezuela (except north-west).
punctigula (Boddaert, 1783) - The Guianas.
guttatus (von Spix, 1824) - Amazonia from eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru east to north-eastern Brazil (Pará), south to north-western Bolivia and northern Mato Grosso.