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Large-billed subspecies naevia, herero and bradfieldi sometimes treated together as a separate species. Limited genetic evidence supports this split, but further work needed. Geographical variation within both "small-billed group" and "large-billed group" broadly clinal. Other named subspecies are elfriedae (eastern end of Etosha Pan, in northern Namibia), hoeschi (northern Damaraland, in north-central Namibia) and veseyfitzgeraldi (north-western Botswana), all synonymized with waibeli, and Namibian forms erongo and uis (both from north-western Damaraland), considered inseparable from naevia.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

• plebeja (Cabanis, 1875)   -  Extreme north-western Angola (coast of Cabinda).
• ansorgei (Sclater, WL, 1926)   -  Angolan coastal plain southern from western Cuanza Sul (from Sumbe).
• naevia (Strickland, 1853)   -  North-western Namibia. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Bradfield's Lark (Mirafra naevia).
• herero (Roberts, 1936)   -  Central and southern Namibia.
• bradfieldi (Roberts, 1928)   -  Semi-arid Karoo regions in central South Africa.
• waibeli (Grote, 1922)   -  Northern Namibia and northern Botswana.
• sabotoides (Roberts, 1932)   -  Central and southern Botswana, western Zimbabwe and north-western South Africa (Northwest Province).
• sabota (Smith, 1836)   -  Highveld savanna in eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe and eastern South Africa.
• suffusca (Clancey, 1958)   -  South-eastern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique, and lowveld of South Africa and Swaziland.

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