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Proposed subspecies ovamboensis (described from Ovamboland, in north-central Namibia) and lucens (Pongola Town, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, north-eastern South Africa) both synonymized with nominate, and hawkeri (Jifa Medir, in Somalia) with osiris.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• osiris (Finsch, 1870)   -  Locally in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, south-eastern Sudan (Didinga Mts), northern Uganda and northern Kenya.
• suahelicus Reichenow, 1891   -  Locally in central Uganda, extreme eastern DRCongo, Rwanda, Burundi, central and southern Kenya, Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia.
• mariquensis (Smith, 1836)   -  West-central and southern Angola (southern from Cuenza Valley) and Namibia east to south-western Zambia, Botswana, central and southern Zimbabwe, northern South Africa and southern Mozambique.

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