Brown Illadopsis (Illadopsis fulvescens) [XC169712]
by Richard Hoyer from Kakum National Park, Ghana (song)
Brown Illadopsis (Illadopsis fulvescens) [XC780944]
by Joost van Bruggen from Gola Rainforest NP, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone (song)
Subspecies
Has been placed in genus Trichastoma and in Malacocincla. Subspecies iboensis and moloneyana have been thought possibly to represent a separate species. However, latter appears to intergrade with subspecies gularis in Ghana.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
gularis Sharpe, 1870 - South-western Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone east to south-western Ghana.
moloneyana (Sharpe, 1892) - South-eastern Ghana east to south-western Nigeria.
iboensis (Hartert, 1907) - South-eastern Nigeria and south-western Cameroon. Also (probably this race) in central Nigeria (Jos Plateau).
fulvescens (Cassin, 1859) - Southern Cameroon south to southern PRCongo, extreme western DRCongo, also western Central African Republic.
ugandae (van Someren, 1915) - South-central Central African Republic and eastern PRCongo east through DRCongo to southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya and western Tanzania, also north-eastern Angola.