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Other proposed subspecies include blicki (described from southern shore L Stefanie, in south-western Ethiopia), synonymized with albiventris, and sukensis (from R Turkwell, in northern Kenya), merged with fazoqlensis; kuanzae (Malanje, in northern Angola), niassae (Malawi), cyanescens (Zanzibar) and stierlingi (Uhehe, in southern Tanzania) are all treated as synonyms of falkensteini.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• venustus (Shaw & Nodder, 1799)   -  Senegal, Gambia and Sierra Leone east to Nigeria, northern Cameroon and Central African Republic.
• fazoqlensis (Heuglin, 1874)   -  Eastern Sudan, Eritrea and western Ethiopia.
• albiventris (Strickland, 1852)   -  Eastern and southern Ethiopia, Somalia and north-eastern Kenya.
• falkensteini Fischer, GA & Reichenow, 1884   -  South-eastern Sudan south to western and southern Kenya, and from southern Gabon and western Angola east to southern DRCongo, Tanzania (including Pemba I and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
• igneiventris Reichenow, 1899   -  Eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

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