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Sometimes placed in a superspecies with Singing Cisticola (Cisticola cantans), but ranges overlap considerably. Subspecies lepe sometimes considered a separate species; reported as being locally sympatric with sylvia in south-eastern DRCongo (Marungu Mts).

Proposed subspecies arcanus (described from north-western Zambia) and elusus (eastern Zimbabwe) synonymized with nyasa.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• erythrops (Hartlaub, 1857)   -  Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Central African Republic and north-eastern Gabon, south to R Congo.
• sylvia Reichenow, 1904   -  South-western Sudan, north-eastern and eastern DRCongo, Kenya and central Tanzania.
• pyrrhomitra Reichenow, 1916   -  South-eastern Sudan and Ethiopia.
• niloticus Madarász, 1914   -  Blue Nile, in central Sudan.
• lepe Lynes, 1930   -  Western and northern Angola, possibly extending eastern into south-eastern DRCongo. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Lepe Cisticola (Cisticola lepe).
• nyasa Lynes, 1930   -  South-eastern DRCongo and southern Tanzania south to eastern South Africa.

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