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Sometimes treated as conspecific with Grey-headed Sunbird (Deleornis axillaris), but the two meet in south-western DRCongo apparently without intergrading.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• idius (Oberholser, 1899)   -  South-western Guinea and Sierra Leone east to Togo. Also recorded in extreme southern Mali.
• cameroonensis (Bannerman, 1921)   -  Southern Nigeria east to south-western Central African Republic, south to PRCongo, western DRCongo and north-western Angola.
• fraseri (Jardine & Selby, 1843)   -  Bioko I (Fernando Póo).

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