Siptornis punensis rufala Chapman, 1919b: 328

LECROY, MARY & SLOSS, RICHARD, 2000, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 3. Passeriformes: Eurylaimidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Furnariidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, And Rhinocryptidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (257), pp. 1-88 : 26

Siptornis punensis rufala Chapman, 1919b: 328 (above

Tafi del Valle, alt. 9500 ft., Prov. Tucuman, Argentina). Now Asthenes sclateri lilloi (Oustalet, 1904) . See Chapman, 1921b: 6, and Ridgely and Tudor, 1994: 112.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 141178 , adult male, collected above Tafí del Valle , 9500 ft, 26°52′S, 65°41′W, Tucumán, Argentina, on 2 April 1916, by Leo E. Miller (no. 15902) and Howarth S. Boyle.

COMMENTS: Vaurie (1980: 175, 182) gave punensis full species rank in the genus Thripophaga but did not recognize either rufala or lilloi.