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Vagrant to Israel.

Studies indicate additionally that subspecies margelanica may represent a fourth species. Further study needed. Proposed subspecies snigirewskii (from Turkmenistan) largely inseparable from, and therefore synonymized with, nominate; jaxartica (southern Kazakhstan) falls within range of clinal variation of nominate, with which likewise synonymized; poorly differentiated chuancheica (Upper Huang He, south of Gobi, in northern China) included within margelanica.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• minula Hume, 1873   -  Breeds south-eastern Caspian region (south-eastern Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan) east to western China (Xinjiang), probably also eastern Iran and western Afghanistan. Non-breeding from Arabia east to north-western India.
• margelanica Stolzmann, 1898   -  North central China. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Margelanic Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia margelanica).

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