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Several additional subspecies proposed: adamauae (described from Adamaoua, in north-central Cameroon), considered inseparable from acik; saturatior (from Malanje, in Angola) and inaestimata (Dar es Salaam, in eastern Tanzania), both synonymized with gutturalis; and aequatorialis (Bukoba, in north-western Tanzania) and erythrinae (Trans Nzoia District, in Kenya), both merged with lamperti.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Southern Mauritania and Senegal east to Nigeria.
• acik (Hartmann, 1866)   -  Northern Cameroon, southern Chad, western and south-western Sudan, northern Central African Republic, north-eastern DRCongo and north-eastern Uganda.
• proteus (Rüppell, 1840)   -  South-eastern Sudan (Boma Hills), Ethiopia, Eritrea and northern Kenya.
• lamperti (Reichenow, 1897)   -  Southern Sudan (east of White Nile: Imatong Mts, Leboni Forest), eastern DRCongo (L Albert south to northern L Tanganyika), west, central and southern Uganda and central Kenya south to western Tanzania.
• gutturalis (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Angola and southern DRCongo east to south-eastern Kenya, Pemba I and Zanzibar, south to central Namibia, northern Botswana, Mozambique, and eastern South Africa (Limpopo Province south to KwaZulu-Natal and northern eastern Cape).
• saturatior (Reichenow, 1891)   -  Angola and southern DR Congo to Namibia and northern Botswana.

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