Habitat
Thick understorey of montane forest, dominated by Podocarpus, Schefflera and Prunus, favouring streams or dry stream courses. From 1,800 - 2,450 m.
Banded Wattle-eye (Platysteira laticincta) [XC98956]
by Mike Nelson from Lake Awing, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon (call)
Banded Wattle-eye (Platysteira laticincta) [XC98954]
by Mike Nelson from Lake Awing, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Black-throated Wattle-eye (Platysteira peltata) and Banded Wattle-eye (Platysteira laticincta) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include laticincta as a subspecies of Banded Wattle-eye (Platysteira laticincta).
Traditionally, all members of genus treated as a superspecies, but untenable on grounds of geographical overlap and morphological characters. Better treated as forming a superspecies with Black-throated Wattle-eye (Platysteira peltata) and often considered conspecific, but geographically and ecologically isolated in montane habitat and exhibits not altogether negligible plumage differences.