Proposed subspecies loveridgei (described from Lumbo, in north-eastern Mozambique) is synonymized with sharpii, and languens (from Manhica, in southern Mozambique) with wilsoni.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
sharpii (Neumann, 1900) - Central, south-western and eastern Angola, north-eastern and south-eastern DRCongo east to west-central and southern Kenya, north-eastern and southern Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and northern and central Mozambique.
wilsoni Roberts, 1936 - Southern Mozambique, Swaziland and eastern South Africa (eastern Limpopo south to KwaZulu-Natal and eastern Cape).
sulphurata (Linnaeus, 1766) - Southern South Africa (southern western Cape and western eastern Cape).