Karoo Prinia © flickr.com

Forms a superspecies with Saffron-breasted Prinia (Prinia hypoxantha) Often considered conspecific, but little evidence of intergradation where the two meet (other than around Mt Currie, in East Griqualand). Occasionally hybridizes with Black-chested Prinia (Prinia flavicans) in western South Africa.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• psammophila Clancey, 1963   -  South-western Namibia and Namaqualand coastal plain of South Africa (south to R Olifants).
• exultans Clancey, 1982   -  Inland in extreme southern Namibia, South Africa (Great Karoo, southern Free State, eastern Cape) and Lesotho.
• maculosa (Boddaert, 1783)   -  Southern South Africa (from western Cape east to Humansdorp).

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