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Forms a superspecies with Braun's Bush-Shrike (Laniarius brauni) and Gabela Bush-Shrike (Laniarius amboimensis), and all formerly regarded as conspecific. Recent molecular-genetic work indicates that this superspecies is sister to the superspecies formed by Tropical Boubou (Laniarius aethiopicus) and Turati's Boubou (Laniarius turatii). Subspecies intergrade in Ruwenzori Mts (eastern DRCongo).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• luehderi Reichenow, 1874   -  Extreme south-eastern Nigeria (Calabar area) and southern Cameroon south to north-western Angola (Cabinda) and southern PRCongo (lower R Congo); extreme southern Sudan, north-eastern and eastern DRCongo, Rwanda and Burundi south to western and eastern sides of L Tanganyika.
• castaneiceps Sharpe, 1891   -  Extreme eastern DRCongo (Ruwenzori Mts), southern Uganda and south-western Kenya.

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