Continent: Africa
Distribution: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire, except in the center), Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Gambia (HÅKANSSON 1981), Mauritania, Sudan, Tanzania, Somalia, Togo, Uganda, Zambia  nigricollis: Savannas from Senegal east to Kenya and south to Angola, Zambia, and Tanzania;
Type locality: Guinea = coast of Ghana.  atriceps:
Type locality: Mugera, Ruyigi, Burundi.  crawshayi: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Katanga), Congo (Brazzaville) through N Malawi to Tanzania;
Type locality: Lake Mweru.