Luapula cisticola


The Luapula cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in south-central Africa.

Taxonomy

The Luapula cisticola is monotypic. This taxon was split from the winding cisticola by the and HBW, as were the rufous-winged cisticola, coastal cisticola and Ethiopian cisticola. The Clements and Howard and Moore world lists consider these taxa as a single species, the winding cisticola C. galactotes.

Distribution and habitat

This species is found in eastern Angola, Lake Mweru, Zambia, northern and north-eastern Namibia, northern Botswana and north-western Zimbabwe.
Its natural habitats are tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.