Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling © flickr.com

May form a superspecies with Sharp-tailed Glossy-Starling (Lamprotornis acuticaudus). Subspecies sometimes treated as two distinct species, forming a superspecies.

Proposed subspecies cyanogenys (described from Sennar, in Sudan) is regarded as a synonym of nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• chloropterus Swainson, 1838   -  Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, northern Sierra Leone, Mali and Ivory Coast east to southern Chad, Central African Republic, southern Sudan, western Ethiopia, Eritrea, northern Uganda and north-western Kenya.
• elisabeth (Stresemann, 1924)   -  Southern Kenya to northern Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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