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Taxonomic status of form "toulsoni" of north-western Angola and Zimbabwe is highly controversial, and it has been considered a full species, but is probably best treated as a dark morph within nominate subspecies.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• horus (Heuglin, 1869)   -  Central Ethiopia, central-southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, and north-western Uganda to Burundi and eastern Zaire; Zambia to south-western Cape (South Africa); more isolated populations in Nigeria, northern Cameroon, western Chad, western and east-central Sudan, extreme western Zaire and north-western Angola.
• fuscobrunneus Brooke, 1971   -  South-western Angola. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Loanda Swift (Apus toulsoni).

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