Green Twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula) [XC739800]
by id from Kibale National Park, Western Region, Uganda (call)
Green Twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula) [XC398118]
by Peter Boesman from Chowo forest, Nyika NP, Zambia (song)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes subsumed in Hypargos, but more closely related to Cryptospiza.
Proposed subspecies virginiae (described from R Opu, on Bioko I) treated as a synonym of schlegeli.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
schlegeli (Sharpe, 1870) - Western Guinea and Sierra Leone east, discontinuously, to DRCongo and western Uganda, south to north-western Angola. Also Bioko I (Fernando Póo).
chubbi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1912) - Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania (including Pemba I), Zanzibar, Zambia and northern Malawi.
nitidula (Hartlaub, 1865) - Southern Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, eastern South Africa (Limpopo Province, KwaZulu-Natal and eastern Eastern Cape) and western Swaziland.
virginiae (Amadon, 1953) - Bioko (Gulf of Guinea).