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Forms a superspecies with Cinnamon-breasted Tit (Melaniparus pallidiventris) and Red-throated Tit (Melaniparus fringillinus). Has been considered conspecific with Cinnamon-breasted Tit (Melaniparus pallidiventris), but differs in eye colour (possibly age-related) and belly colour (varies clinally).

Hybridization not proven, and identity of supposed intermediates (based chiefly on eye coloration) uncertain. Further research required. Subspecies intergrade widely.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

• rufiventris (Barboza du Bocage, 1877)   -  Southern PRCongo and south-western and southern DRCongo south to central Angola and central Zambia.
• diligens (Clancey, 1979)   -  Southern Angola, northern Namibia, south-western Zambia and north-western Botswana.
• masukuensis (Shelley, 1900)   -  South-eastern DRCongo, eastern Zambia and Malawi.
• pallidiventris Reichenow, 1885   -  Tanzania, southern Malawi and northern Mozambique. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Cinnamon-breasted Tit (Melaniparus pallidiventris).

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