A northwestern Argentine sample group was reported to have a white spot beneath the chin. Argentina’s protected-area biodiversity system records the species in open steppe with shrubs and drought-tolerant herbs.
A 1980 study treated the northwestern Argentine sample as A. varius simulator and described it as the largest of three sample groups, with a distinctive white spot beneath the chin.
Argentina’s national parks biodiversity system records it in open steppe vegetation with shrubs and drought-tolerant herbs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.