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Proposed subspecies fischeri (described from Mwanza, in north-western Tanzania) synonymized with dimidiatus.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• melanocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Southern Mauritania, northern and south-western Senegal, Gambia, southern Mali and south-western Niger.
• capitalis (Latham, 1790)   -  Western Guinea-Bissau, eastern Guinea, Burkina Faso, north-eastern Ghana, northern Togo, Nigeria (on major rivers), northern Cameroon, south-western Chad and northern Central African Republic.
• dimidiatus (Salvadori & Antinori, 1873)   -  South-eastern Sudan, western Eritrea, north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, south-western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.
• duboisi Hartlaub, 1886   -  Eastern PRCongo, southern Central African Republic, south-western Sudan, central and south-eastern DRCongo and northern Zambia.
• fischeri Reichenow, 1887   -  Eastern DR Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and northern Zambia.

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