Dicrurus occidentalis Fuchs, Douno, Bowie, Fjeldså, 2018

Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni & Pavia, Marco, 2022, An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso, Zoosystema 44 (2), pp. 27-107 : 72-73

Dicrurus occidentalis Fuchs, Douno, Bowie, Fjeldså, 2018

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LITERATURE. — Dowsett (1993); Portier et al. (2002); Balanca et al. (2007); Pavia et al. (2012); Dowsett et al. (2013); Borrow & Demey (2014); Fuchs et al. (2017); Fuchs et al. (2018).

MUSEUM MATERIAL. — MCCI 3370.

FIELD DATA. — GBIF; WABD.

STATUS. — Resident.

REMARK. — The Square-tailed Drongo of western Africa, previously attributed to Dicrurus ludwgii (A. Smith, 1834), was recently described as a new species, Dicrurus occidentalis ( Fuchs, Douno, Bowie & Fjeldså, 2018), for whose description the specimen from Burkina Faso (MCCI 3370) collected in the Comoé-Léraba classified forest, Cascade Region, 18.III.2011, constituted the northernmost sample ( Fuchs et al. 2018).

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FIG. 16. — Following the taxonomic revision of the Squared-tailed Drongo species complex (Fuchs et al.2018),the population in southern Burkina Faso is now at- tributed to Dicrurus occidentalis Fuchs,Douno,Bowie & Fjeldså,2018.The portrayed specimen from Comoé-Léraba classified forest,Cascade Region,18.III.2011 (photo M. Pavia) was sequenced and included in the sample of the original description.