Whyte's Barbet

Taxonomy

Order

Piciformes

Family

Lybiidae

Genus

Stactolaema

eBird Code

whybar1

Subspecies (6)

• Stactolaema whytii angoniensis

  eastern Zambia to southwestern Malawi (west of Shire River)

• Stactolaema whytii buttoni

  north-central Zambia (along border with Democratic Republic of the Congo); probably also southern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Stactolaema whytii sowerbyi

  eastern Zimbabwe to far southern Malawi

• Stactolaema whytii stresemanni

  southwestern corner of Tanzania and adjacent northeastern Zambia

• Stactolaema whytii terminata

  highlands of southern Tanzania (Iringa region)

• Stactolaema whytii whytii

  south-central Tanzania to southeastern Malawi and Mozambique