Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda.
Disjunctly from Sierra Leone and Guinea east to southern Cameroon, south-eastern Central African Republic, northern Zaire and south-western Uganda, south to northern Angola and south-central and eastern Zaire.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Lyre-tailed Honeyguide (Melichneutes robustus) [XC99231]
by Deville Tanguy from Korup National Park, Cameroon (song)
Lyre-tailed Honeyguide (Melichneutes robustus) [XC99230]
by Mike Nelson from Korup National Park, Cameroon (flight call, song)
Subspecies
Closely related to Indicator, wherein perhaps closest to Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator), but separated generically on basis of unique tail and undertail-coverts, as well as voice and behaviour.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet