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Forms a superspecies with Grey-headed Woodpecker (Dendropicos spodocephalus) and Olive Woodpecker (Dendropicos griseocephalus), hybridizing with them where ranges meet. Often treated as conspecific with Grey-headed Woodpecker (Dendropicos spodocephalus). Subspecies intergrade.

Proposed subspecies agmen (tree-savanna belt from Gambia south to Liberia and across to east-central Sudan), centralis (savanna from Cameroon to south-western Sudan and western Kenya) and oreites (highlands of central Cameroon) all considered inseparable from nominate.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• koenigi (Neumann, 1903)   -  Sahel zone from east-central Mali east to western and southern Sudan.
• goertae (P. L. S. Müller, 1776)   -  South-western Mauritania and Senegambia east to southern Sudan and western and central Kenya, and south to north-eastern Zaire, Rwanda and north-western Tanzania.
• abessinicus (Reichenow, 1900)   -  Eastern Sudan and northern and western Ethiopia.
• meridionalis Louette & Prigogine, 1982   -  Southern Gabon to north-western Angola (Cabinda, possibly south to Malanje), and south-central Zaire.
• centralis (Reichenow, 1900)   -  Eastern Angola east to western Tanzania, south to northern Namibia and Zambia.

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