Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Sundevall, CJ 1850)

Reference:
   Öfvers. Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akad. Förh. 7, no.4 p.97

Protonym:
  Ploceus (Hyphanthornis) rubriceps

Type locality:
  Upper Caffraria, near the Tropic. Restricted to Mohapoani, Witfontein Mts., western Transvaal, by Gyldenstolpe (1934, Ibis, p. 292).

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/285379#page/107/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  4D19099B8FAD39D6

Avibase ID:
  avibase-4D19099B

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/4D19099B

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 558577

Geographic range:

• Anaplectes rubriceps: lowland to montane bushveld, acacia savanna, broadleaf and miombo woodland, from Senegambia eastward across the Sahel to Ethiopia and western Somalia, southward (avoiding Congolian rainforest) to northern Namibia and Mozambique, and thence southward to Eswatini and northeastern South Africa
• Anaplectes rubriceps rubriceps: southern Angola to northeastern Namibia, southern Zambia, Mozambique, and northeastern southern Africa
• Anaplectes rubriceps leuconotos: Senegambia to southern Chad, northern Central African Republic, southwestern and southern Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and northern Somalia, southward through Uganda and Kenya to Malawi