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Forms a species group with Eurasian Penduline-Tit (Remiz pendulinus), White-crowned Penduline-Tit (Remiz coronatus) and Chinese Penduline-Tit (Remiz consobrinus). All are often considered conspecific. Sometimes considered conspecific with first of those, and the other two united as a separate species. Treatment as four distinct species based mainly on structural, as well as plumage and habitat, differences.

Present species frequently hybridizes with Eurasian Penduline-Tit (Remiz pendulinus) by northern and south-western shores of Caspian Sea. Hybrids in northern (mouth of R Ural) named as bostanjogli, and those in southern as, respectively, loudoni and altaicus; last-mentioned sometimes treated as a valid subspecies. Moreover, ssaposhnikowi believed probably to have originated as hybrid between nominate subspecies of present species and subspecies jaxarticus of Eurasian Penduline-Tit (Remiz pendulinus), although neither parent found within current range of ssaposhnikowi. Subspecies neglectus sometimes synonymized with nominate.

Birds from Aral Sea region described as subspecies aralensis, but considered inseparable from nominate.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• neglectus (Zarudny, 1908)   -  Northern Iran and south-western Turkmenistan.
• macronyx (Severtsov, 1873)   -  South-western Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, northern and south-eastern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and probably north-eastern Afghanistan.
• ssaposhnikowi (Johansen, HE, 1907)   -  South-eastern Kazakhstan (L Balkhash, L Sasykkol and L Alakol).
• nigricans (Zarudny, 1908)   -  South-eastern Iran (Sistan) and probably south-western Afghanistan.

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