Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
Yellow-bellied Eremomela (Eremomela icteropygialis) - HBW 11, p. 683
French: Érémomèle à croupion jaune
German: Gelbbaucheremomela
Spanish: Eremomela Ventrigualda
Other common names: Grey-backed Eremomela; Salvadori’s Eremomela (salvadorii)
Taxonomy: Sylvietta icteropygialis Lafresnaye, 1839, Orange River, Namibia.
Forms a superspecies with E. flavicrissalis. Race salvadorii sometimes treated as a separate species. Other proposed races are karamojensis (from NE Uganda, N Kenya and S Somalia) and crawfurdi (SW Kenya, NW Tanzania and Rwanda), both synonymized with griseoflava; sharpei (SW South Africa), synonymized with saturatior; and viriditincta (described from SW Zambia), considered inseparable from helenorae. Ten subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- alexanderi W. L. Sclater & Mackworth-Praed, 1918 - extreme S Mauritania, N Senegal, S Mali, Burkina Faso, S Niger (S from Aïr) and extreme N Nigeria E to W Sudan (Darfur and Kordofan).
- griseoflava Heuglin, 1862 - NE, C & S Sudan, N Eritrea, NW Somalia, C & S Ethiopia, E Uganda, W Kenya, NW Tanzania (E to Mwanza) and E Rwanda.
- salvadorii Reichenow, 1891 - SE Gabon E to S DRCongo (E to Kasai), N, E & C Angola and W Zambia (Zambezi District).
- alexanderi W. L. Sclater & Mackworth-Praed, 1918 - extreme S Mauritania, N Senegal, S Mali, Burkina Faso, S Niger (S from Aïr) and extreme N Nigeria E to W Sudan (Darfur and Kordofan).
- griseoflava Heuglin, 1862 - NE, C & S Sudan, N Eritrea, NW Somalia, C & S Ethiopia, E Uganda, W Kenya, NW Tanzania (E to Mwanza) and E Rwanda.
- salvadorii Reichenow, 1891 - SE Gabon E to S DRCongo (E to Kasai), N, E & C Angola and W Zambia (Zambezi District).
- abdominalis Reichenow, 1905 - C, S & SE Kenya and N Tanzania (S to Tabora and Bahi).
- polioxantha Sharpe, 1883 - E & S Tanzania (S from Iringa and Kidugallo), SE DRCongo (S Katanga), Zambia (except W & SW), Malawi, Zimbabwe (except NW), E Botswana, W & S Mozambique, NE South Africa (N & E Northern Province S to NE KwaZulu-Natal) and Swaziland.
- puellula Grote, 1929 - coastal SW Angola (Benguela, Namibe).
- helenorae Alexander, 1899 - S Angola (S Cuando Cubango), extreme NE Namibia (Caprivi), SW Zambia, NW Zimbabwe and N & NE Botswana.
- icteropygialis (Lafresnaye, 1839) - Namibia and W & C Botswana.
- perimacha Oberholser, 1920 - S Botswana and N South Africa (Northern Cape E to W Northern Province).
- saturatior Ogilvie-Grant, 1910 - S & C South Africa (Transvaal highveld and W Free State S to Western Cape and W Eastern Cape).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in an acacia tree, foraging. Locality Yabelo, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp griseoflava)
Josep del Hoyo 12 December 2005 6 years ago 34 sec 3.2
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A bird in a tree
Locality Ghanzi District, Botswana
Aleix Comas 7 September 2007 3 years ago 3 -
Bird in an acacia
Locality Bogol Manyo, Genale Valley, Ethiopia
Guy Poisson 7 February 2010 2 years ago 2.8 -
An adult perched on a bush.
Locality Karoo National Park, Western Cape Province, South Africa (ssp saturatior)
Carmelo López 28 November 2010 2 years ago 2.5
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Response to playback. 13:14. Locality Skitterykloof, Western Cape Province, South Africa
(ssp saturatior)
Charles Hesse 31 May 2010 3 years ago 4
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