Luapula cisticola

The Luapula cisticola (Cisticola luapula) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

Luapula cisticola
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cisticolidae
Genus:	Cisticola
Species:	C. luapula
Binomial name
Cisticola luapula Lynes, 1933

Taxonomy

The Luapula cisticola is monotypic.^[2] This taxon was split from the winding cisticola by the IOC and HBW, as were the rufous-winged cisticola, coastal cisticola and Ethiopian cisticola. The Clements (2017) and Howard and Moore (2014) world lists consider these taxa as a single species, the winding cisticola C. galactotes (sensu lato).^[3]

Distribution and habitat

This species is found in eastern Angola, Lake Mweru (south-eastern DRC), Zambia, northern and north-eastern Namibia, northern Botswana and north-western Zimbabwe.^[4]

Its natural habitats are tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.