Naming
The southern yellow white-eye was formerly treated as a subspecies of the African yellow white-eye,, but it is now considered as a separate species based on the phylogenetic relationships determined in a molecular study in 2013.Three subspecies are recognised:
⤷ "Z. a. anderssoni" Shelley, 1892 – east and south Angola and north Namibia to southwest Tanzania, west Mozambique and north South Africa
⤷ "Z. a. tongensis" Roberts, 1931 – southeast Zimbabwe, south Mozambique and northeast South Africa
⤷ "Z. a. stierlingi" Reichenow, 1899 – east and south Tanzania, east Zambia, Malawi and north Mozambique
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