Further, the SACC spells the specific epithet schulzi, rejecting the change from it to schulzii that the other three systems adopted.

Their bill is a long pale ivory-white chisel with a darker culmen and base, their iris deep brown to red-brown, and their legs dark gray.

[6] The black-bodied woodpecker is found from the southern Bolivia departments of Santa Cruz and Tarija south through western and central Paraguay into north-central Argentina as far as Córdoba and San Luis provinces.

It inhabits the woodland and savanna of the dry Gran Chaco and the transition zones between them and moister montane forest.

[6] The black-bodied woodpecker's breeding season spans at least October to December and might extend to March.

The clutch size, incubation period, time to fledging, and details of parental care are not known.

It apparently has two population centers, in Argentina's Córdoba and San Luis provinces and in central Paraguay, and is very scarce elsewhere.