It is named after Johann Jakob von Tschudi, the Swiss explorer and naturalist who first described the bird.

The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) did accept it but in July 2023 reversed itself and lumped Tschudi's back into the ocellated woodcreeper.

BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) does retain Tschudi's woodcreeper as a separate species, X.

[5] The other three taxonomic systems treat these taxa as subspecies of the ocellated woodcreeper.

[6] It is found along the east Andean slope and adjacent Amazonian lowlands from southern Colombia south through Ecuador and Peru to northern Bolivia and far south-western Brazil.