Green-backed Eremomela © dibird.com

Forms a superspecies with Senegal Eremomela (Eremomela pusilla), Green-capped Eremomela (Eremomela scotops) and Karoo Eremomela (Eremomela gregalis). Has been treated as conspecific with Senegal Eremomela (Eremomela pusilla), with which it hybridizes along Cameroon-Central African Republic border.

Proposed subspecies elgonensis (from western Kenya and adjacent Uganda) evidently an intergrade between elegans and nominate, and synonymized with latter.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• canescens Antinori, 1864   -  Southern Chad, eastern Cameroon, Central African Republic, southern Sudan, extreme northern and north-eastern DRCongo, northern and eastern Uganda and western Kenya.
• elegans Heuglin, 1864   -  Western and central Sudan (Darfur and Kordofan east to Sennar).
• abyssinica Bannerman, 1911   -  Eastern Sudan (Kassala to R Sobat), northern Eritrea, western Ethiopia (south to R Omo).
• elgonensis van Someren, 1920   -  Western Kenya (Mt. Elgon to southern Nandi Hills).

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