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Subspecies ochrogaster sometimes considered a separate species; benguellensis and ruthae might form another species. In recent analysis of mitochondrial phylogeny, nominate subspecies, ochrogaster and roseicrissa comprised a clade that included also Orange-cheeked Waxbill (Estrilda melpoda), which occurs sympatrically with present species and is clearly a distinct species; benguellensis and ruthae comprised another, multi-species clade, with closest relatives nominate subspecies, ochrogaster and roseicrissa and also Orange-cheeked Waxbill (Estrilda melpoda), Black-rumped Waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes), Crimson-rumped Waxbill (Estrilda rhodopyga) and Arabian Waxbill (Estrilda rufibarba). Further study is required.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• ruthae Chapin, 1950   -  Southern Gabon, southern PRCongo, and south-western DRCongo (along middle R Congo near Kinshasa).
• paludicola Heuglin, 1863   -  Southern Sudan, eastern Central African Republic, northern DRCongo (east to Ituri), northern Uganda and western Kenya.
• ochrogaster Salvadori, 1897   -  South-eastern Sudan and Ethiopia. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Abyssinian Waxbill (Estrilda ochrogaster).
• roseicrissa Reichenow, 1892   -  Eastern DRCongo south of L Edward, south-western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and north-western Tanzania.
• benguellensis Neumann, 1908   -  Angola, southern DRCongo (Upper Katanga) and Zambia.
• marwitzi Reichenow, 1900   -  South-central Tanzania.

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