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Unknown to Guinea-bissau, Guinea-bissau.

Has been thought to form a superspecies, or even to be conspecific, with Vitelline Masked Weaver (Ploceus vitellinus), Tanzanian Masked Weaver (Ploceus reichardi), Lufira Masked Weaver (Ploceus ruweti) and Katanga Masked Weaver (Ploceus katangae), but current molecular data do not support any close links to these taxa.

Proposed subspecies peixotoi (confined to Sío Tomé, where introduced!), finschi (described from Namibe, in south-western Angola), caurinus (from Damaraland, in Namibia), shelleyi (from Tete, on R Zambezi, in north-western Mozambique) and, in South Africa, tahatali (from North West Province), inustus (from south-western Northern Cape) and nigrifrons (from Eastern Cape) separated on basis of minor differences in male plumage. Hewever, characters such as width of black on forehead exhibit considerable individual variation and naming of subspecies appears unwarranted.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• velatus Vieillot, 1819   -  Southern Angola to Mozambique and south to southern and eastern South Africa. Also São Tomé.
• nigrifrons (Cabanis, 1851)   -  Eastern Cape, northern and western Natal and western Swaziland.
• tahatali Smith, 1836   -  Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana, south-western Mozambique, eastern Swaziland, north-eastern Natal.
• shelleyi Sharpe , 1890   -  Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.
• caurinus Clancey, 1959   -  Southern Angola, Namibia, Botswana and northern Cape Province.
• finschi Reichenow, 1903   -  Coastal Angola.

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