Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda.
Disjunctly from Sierra Leone and Guinea east to southern Cameroon, south-eastern Central African Republic, northern Zaire and south-western Uganda, south to northern Angola and south-central and eastern Zaire.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Lyre-tailed Honeyguide (Melichneutes robustus) [XC99230]
by Mike Nelson from Korup National Park, Cameroon (flight call, song)
Lyre-tailed Honeyguide (Melichneutes robustus) [XC824171]
by id from Lompole, Bandundu, Mai-Ndombe, Congo (Democratic Republic) (song)
Subspecies
Closely related to Indicator, wherein perhaps closest to Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator), but separated generically on basis of unique tail and undertail-coverts, as well as voice and behaviour.