Black-collared Apalis © oiseaux.net

Forms a superspecies with Ruwenzori Apalis (Oreolais ruwenzorii) and sometimes treated as conspecific. They may be better placed together in a separate genus. Also, often considered closely related to Bar-throated Apalis (Apalis thoracica), but differs in having ten (not twelve) rectrices and is genetically quite distinct.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• pulcher (Sharpe, 1891)   -  South-eastern Nigeria and south-western Cameroon highlands, north-eastern DRCongo, southern Sudan, south-eastern Uganda and south-western Kenya.
• murphyi (Chapin, 1932)   -  Marungu Mts, in south-eastern DRCongo.

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