"der Nähe von Mexico"[placed in Ciudad Mexico, Mexico].
Distribution:
Belize, Bolivia, S Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, USA (most states excluding SW deserts), Venezuela.
Status:
IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:
Youngman (1982) and Abramov (1999) placed frenata in the subgenus Mustela. Synonyms allocated according to Hall (1951) and Sheffield and Thomas (1997).