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Often considered conspecific with Bedford's Paradise-flycatcher (Terpsiphone bedfordi), but hybridization restricted to very narrow zone of overlap, where that species and subspecies ignea interbreed at low rate. The two differ also in morphology and other characters. Has hybridized also with Terpsiphone batesi and African Paradise-Flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis). Subspecies smithii often considered a separate species. Subspecies intergrade.

The following 11 subspecies are recognised:

• rufiventer (Swainson, 1837)   -  Senegal, Gambia and western Guinea.
• nigriceps (Hartlaub, 1855)   -  Sierra Leone and Guinea east to Togo and south-western Benin.
• fagani (Bannerman, 1921)   -  Benin and south-western Nigeria.
• tricolor (Fraser, 1843)   -  Bioko I (Fernando Póo).
• smithii (Fraser, 1843)   -  Annobón I. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Annobon Paradise-flycatcher (Terpsiphone smithii).
• neumanni Stresemann, 1924   -  South-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon south to north-western Angola (Cabinda).
• schubotzi (Reichenow, 1911)   -  South-eastern Cameroon, south-western Central African Republic and north-eastern PRCongo.
• mayombe (Chapin, 1932)   -  Southern PRCongo and western DRCongo.
• ignea (Reichenow, 1901)   -  South-eastern Central African Republic and DRCongo south to north-eastern Angola and north-western Zambia.
• somereni Chapin, 1948   -  Western and southern Uganda.
• emini Reichenow, 1893   -  South-eastern Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.

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