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Introduced to Japan (B).

All subspecies apart from nominate sometimes considered a separate species, but the two forms appear to intergrade in south-eastern India. Taiwan population sometimes separated as subspecies phaethontoptila, but appear hardly different from swinhoei, and therefore included within latter. Proposed subspecies explita, a replacement for preoccupied sumatrensis (described from Tanjong Kassan, in Sumatra), is treated as a synonym of subsquamicollis.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

• striata (Linnaus, 1766)   -  Western and north-eastern peninsular India, and Sri Lanka.
• acuticauda (Hodgson, 1836)   -  Northern India (eastern from Uttarakhand) and southern Nepal eastern in Himalayan foothills to Bangladesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar (except south), north-western Thailand, northern Laos and north-western Vietnam (western Tonkin).
• fumigata (Walden, 1873)   -  Andaman Is.
• semistriata (Hume, 1874)   -  Nicobar Is.
• subsquamicollis (Baker, ECS, 1925)   -  Southern Myanmar (Tenasserim), Thailand (except north-west), central and southern Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia south to Singapore, Sumatra and Bangka I.
• swinhoei (Cabanis, 1882)   -  Southern and south-eastern China (eastern from Yunnan), north-eastern Vietnam (eastern Tonkin), Hainan I and Taiwan.
• explita (Chasen, 1940)   -  Sporadic but locally common on Sumatra and Bangka I.

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