Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye (Platysteira concreta) [XC444193]
by James Bradley from Main Road, Kakamega Forest, Kenya (call)
Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye (Platysteira concreta) [XC137892]
by Ottavio Janni from Kamuzuku, Kasyoha-Kitomi Forest Reserve, Bushenyi, Western Region, Uganda (call)
Subspecies
Closest to Red-cheeked Wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia blissetti). Black-breasted morph of Angolan subspecies ansorgei suspected of being hybrid between the two. Subspecies kungwensis has been thought possibly to represent a separate species.
Proposed subspecies kumbaensis (from south-eastern Nigeria and south-western Cameroon), harterti (from Cameroon) and silvae (from Uganda and Kenya) considered synonymous with graueri; lomaensis (from Sierra Leone) merged with nominate and canzelae (from Angola) with ansorgei.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
concreta Hartlaub, 1855 - Sierra Leone (Loma Mts), Guinea (Macenta district), Liberia, south-western Ivory Coast and southern Ghana (Lateh).
graueri (Hartert, 1908) - South-eastern Nigeria, southern Cameroon and south-western Central African Republic south to Gabon and northern and western PRCongo; eastern DRCongo (Ituri south to Kivu) east to adjoining south-western Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi; western Kenya (Kakamega Forest, northern and southern Nandi Forest).
kungwensis (Moreau, 1941) - Mt Kungwe (including Mt Mahali), in western Tanzania.
ansorgei (Hartert, 1905) - Western Angola (northern Cuanza Norte south to south-eastern Benguela). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia ansorgei).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet