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Proposed subspecies subfamosa (described from Antotto, in central Ethiopia), centralis (Lusasa, in southern Uganda) and aeneigularis (Sotik, in south-western Kenya) all considered indistinguishable from cupreonitens. Subspecies major (described from Weenen, in KwaZulu-Natal) synonymized with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• cupreonitens Shelley, 1876   -  Eritrea, Ethiopia, southern Sudan (Imatong Mts), eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia, northern Malawi and northern Mozambique.
• famosa (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Eastern Zimbabwe and adjacent Mozambique, and southern Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho and western Swaziland.

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