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Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)

Southern Black-flycatcher (Melaenornis pammelaina) - HBW 11, p. 107

French: Gobemouche sud-africain German: Glanzdrongoschnäpper Spanish: Papamoscas Sudafricano
Other common names: South African (Black) Flycatcher

Taxonomy: Sylvia pammelaina Stanley, 1814, Mozambique.
Forms a superspecies with M. edolioides. Geographical variation clinal, and races poorly defined; ater sometimes synonymized with nominate and poliogyna with diabolicus. Five subspecies currently recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • tropicalis (Cabanis, 1884) - SE PRCongo, SW & SE DRCongo, Kenya, S Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi and W Tanzania.
  • poliogyna Lawson, 1964 - Angola (except S) E (possibly including S DRCongo) to SW Tanzania and NW Malawi and S to extreme NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), Zambia and N, W & C Zimbabwe.
  • diabolicus (Sharpe, 1877) - S Angola, N Namibia (except Caprivi Strip) and NW Botswana.

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  • tropicalis (Cabanis, 1884) - SE PRCongo, SW & SE DRCongo, Kenya, S Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi and W Tanzania.
  • poliogyna Lawson, 1964 - Angola (except S) E (possibly including S DRCongo) to SW Tanzania and NW Malawi and S to extreme NE Namibia (Caprivi Strip), Zambia and N, W & C Zimbabwe.
  • diabolicus (Sharpe, 1877) - S Angola, N Namibia (except Caprivi Strip) and NW Botswana.
  • pammelaina (Stanley, 1814) - S & E Tanzania, SE Malawi and N Mozambique (N of Sul do Save).
  • ater (Sundevall, 1850) - SW Malawi, lowland S & E Zimbabwe, Mozambique (S of R Save), SE Botswana, E South Africa (S to Eastern Cape) and Swaziland.

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