Naming
The foothill stipplethroat was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1880 and given the binomial name ''Myrmotherula spodionota''. It was subsequently placed in the genus ''Myrmotherula''. The present genus ''Epinecrophylla'' was erected in 2006.The foothill stipplethroat has two subspecies:
⤷ ''Epinecrophylla spodionota spodionota'' - southern Colombia to northern Peru
⤷ ''Epinecrophylla spodionota sororia'' - Peru
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