Classification

Original description

Citation:
  Hartlaub, KJG 1855

Reference:
   J. f. Orn. 3, no.17 p.355

Protonym:
  Stiphrornis erythrothorax

Type locality:
  Dabocrom.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49380#page/367/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  0DD78D2A712562F9

Avibase ID:
  avibase-0DD78D2A

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/0DD78D2A

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 563147

Geographic range:

• Stiphrornis erythrothorax: lowland to foothill understory of Upper Guinea rainforest, gallery forest, and forest patches in savanna, from Guinea and Sierra Leone eastward to central Nigeria, southern Cameroon, and Bioko (Gulf of Guinea), and southward to Equatorial Guinea and northwestern Gabon
• Stiphrornis erythrothorax erythrothorax: Sierra Leone to southwestern Ghana
• Stiphrornis erythrothorax gabonensis: Ghana (except southwest) eastward to central Cameroon and northern Gabon; Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)
• Stiphrornis erythrothorax xanthogaster: poorly known; documented from southeastern Cameroon, but presumably also in adjacent northeastern Gabon and northwestern Republic of the Congo