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Proposed subspecies idius (described from R Kihambwe, c. 29 km north of Kibondo, in north-western Tanzania) and interior (from Sanyati I, on L Kariba, in north-western Zimbabwe) are treated as synonyms of macrospilotus, as also is baddeleyi (described from Nacala, in north-eastern Mozambique).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• macrospilotus Mearns, 1913   -  North-eastern Angola, south-eastern DRCongo, Rwanda, Burundi, south-eastern Kenya and southern Somalia south to northern Zimbabwe and northern and central Mozambique (to south of R Zambezi).
• niveoguttatus (Peters, 1868)   -  Eastern Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique.

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