Yellow-bellied Eremomela (Eremomela icteropygialis) [XC300282]
by from Awash National Park, Ethiopia (song)
Yellow-bellied Eremomela (Eremomela icteropygialis) [XC347610]
by Peter Boesman from Etosha National Park, Namibia (call, imitation, song)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Yellow-vented Eremomela (Eremomela flavicrissalis). Subspecies salvadorii sometimes treated as a separate species.
Other proposed subspecies are karamojensis (from north-eastern Uganda, northern Kenya and southern Somalia) and crawfurdi (south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and Rwanda), both synonymized with griseoflava; sharpei (south-western South Africa), synonymized with saturatior; and viriditincta (described from south-western Zambia), considered inseparable from helenorae.
The following 12 subspecies are recognised:
alexanderi Sclater, WL & Mackworth-Praed, 1918 - Extreme southern Mauritania, northern Senegal, southern Mali, Burkina Faso, southern Niger (south from Air) and extreme northern Nigeria east to western Sudan (Darfur and Kordofan).
griseoflava Heuglin, 1862 - North-eastern, central and southern Sudan, northern Eritrea, north-western Somalia, central and southern Ethiopia, eastern Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania (east to Mwanza) and eastern Rwanda.
salvadorii Reichenow, 1891 - Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to south-eastern Gabon, central plateau of Angola and western Zambia. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Salvadori's Eremomela (Eremomela salvadorii).
abdominalis Reichenow, 1905 - Central, southern and south-eastern Kenya and northern Tanzania (south to Tabora and Bahi).
polioxantha Sharpe, 1883 - Eastern and southern Tanzania (southern from Iringa and Kidugallo), south-eastern DRCongo (southern Katanga), Zambia (except western and south-west), Malawi, Zimbabwe (except north-west), eastern Botswana, western and southern Mozambique, north-eastern South Africa (northern and eastern northern Province south to north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal) and Swaziland.
helenorae Alexander, 1899 - Southern Angola (southern Cuando Cubango), extreme north-eastern Namibia (Caprivi), south-western Zambia, north-western Zimbabwe and northern and north-eastern Botswana.
icteropygialis (Lafresnaye, 1839) - Namibia and western and central Botswana.
perimacha Oberholser, 1920 - Southern Botswana and northern South Africa (Northern Cape east to western northern Province).
saturatior Ogilvie-Grant, 1910 - Southern and central South Africa (Transvaal highveld and western Free State south to western Cape and western eastern Cape).
sharpei Reichenow, 1905 - Southern Angola, northern Namibia, western and central Botswana.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet