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Subspecies from western and eastern Africa south to Angola, eastern Malawi and northern Mozambique sometimes treated as a separate species on basis of spotted tail and narrow habitat preferences, but lurio is intermediate. Affinity of isolated Angolan subspecies bailunduensis uncertain.

Proposed subspecies teitensis (from south-eastern Kenya) synonymized with emini.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

• admiralis (Smith, 1843)   -  Locally from southern Mauritania, Guinea and Mali east to Ghana, Togo and northern Benin. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini).
• petrophilus Alexander, 1907   -  Nigeria and Cameroon east to southern Sudan and north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini).
• bailunduensis Neumann, 1931   -  Western Angola. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Huambo Cisticola (Cisticola bailunduensis).
• emini Reichenow, 1892   -  Western, central. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Rock-loving Cisticola (Cisticola emini).
• nyika Lynes, 1930   -  South-western Tanzania, Zambia, western Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique (west of Rift Valley).
• lurio Vincent, 1933   -  Eastern Malawi and northern Mozambique (east of Rift Valley).
• aberrans (Smith, 1843)   -  South-eastern Botswana and South African plateau.
• minor Roberts, 1913   -  Coastal plain of southern Mozambique, eastern Swaziland and eastern and south-eastern South Africa.

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