White-faced capuchin

[1] The range of C. capucinus is primarily in South America, in western Colombia and northwest Ecuador, although its range extends into the easternmost portion of Panama.

Both are smallish monkeys which have black bodies, tails and limbs, with white faces, throats, chests and shoulders.

But females of C. imitator have brownish or grayish elongated frontal tufts which are lacking in C.

[1][2] C. imitator had been regarded as a subspecies of C. capucinus until genetic studies in the 2010s revealed that the two species separated as much as 2 million years ago.

[3][4] Although the Colombian white-headed capuchin retained the scientific name C. capucinus from prior to the species being split, almost all previous research on white-faced capuchins under the name C. capucinus had actually been on the Central American species C. imitator as there have not been any field studies on the South American species.