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Forms a superspecies with Mexican Woodnymph (Thalurania ridgwayi), Green-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi) and Fork-tailed Woodnymph (Thalurania furcata). Species limits unclear, and all have been considered conspecific. Alternatively, purple-crowned present species often treated as conspecific with blue-crowned Mexican Woodnymph (Thalurania ridgwayi), and sometimes also with green-crowned Green-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi), forming a group with glittering crowns and more violet on back, as opposed to mostly dull-crowned, green-backed forms of Fork-tailed Woodnymph (Thalurania furcata). Lumping of present species with Green-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi) supported by their close similarity, and also by blue feathering at rear of crown in Green-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi), a feature decreasing with distance from adjacent purple-crowned forms of present species. Females too are very similar. Subspecies hypochlora of Green-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi) may belong in present species. Subspecies rostrifera may be inseparable from nominate. Subspecies townsendi (with venusta) might be approaching separate species status.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

• townsendi Ridgway, 1888   -  Eastern Guatemala to south-eastern Honduras.
• venusta (Gould, 1851)   -  Eastern Nicaragua to central Panama.
• colombica (Bourcier, 1843)   -  Northern Colombia (south to head of Magdalena Valley) and north-western Venezuela.
• rostrifera Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1956   -  North-western Venezuela (south-western Táchira).
• fannyae (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846)   -  Eastern Panama to western Colombia.
• subtropicalis Griscom, 1932   -  West-central Colombia, in Cauca Valley and along adjacent western and central Andes. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Green-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi).
• verticeps (Gould, 1851)   -  Pacific slope of western Andes of extreme south-western Colombia and north-western Ecuador. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Green-crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi).
• hypochlora Gould, 1871   -  Pacific lowlands of Ecuador. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Emerald-bellied Woodnymph (Thalurania hypochlora).

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