Editing Square-tailed drongo (section)

==Taxonomy==
The square-tailed drongo was described by the Scottish zoologist [[Andrew Smith (zoologist)|Andrew Smith]] in 1834 from birds observed around Port Natal (now [[Durban]]) in South Africa. He coined the [[binomial name]] ''Edolius ludwigii''.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Smith | first=Andrew | author-link=Andrew Smith (zoologist) | year=1834 | title=''Edolius ludwigii'' | journal=South African Quarterly Journal | volume=2 | page=144 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15968260 }}</ref> The [[specific epithet]] was chosen to honour the German botanist [[Baron von Ludwig]] who collected plants in South Africa   between 1805 and 1847.<ref name=hbwkey>{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2019 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/ludwigii | access-date=4 February 2019 }}</ref> It is now placed with the other drongos in the genus ''[[Dicrurus]]'' that was introduced by the French ornithologist [[Louis Pierre Vieillot]] in 1816.<ref>{{cite book | last=Vieillot | first=Louis Pierre | author-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | title=Analyse d'Une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire | publisher=Deterville/self | year=1816 | location=Paris | page=41 | language=French| url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f47.image }}</ref> Based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018, the taxonomy of the square-tailed drongo complex was reorganised. [[Sharpe's drongo]] which had previously been treated as a subspecies of ''Dicrurus ludwigii'' was promoted to species rank becoming ''Dicrurus sharpei''. But those birds previously in ''Dicrurus ludwigii sharpei'' occurring between Senegal and the Niger River were considered as a separate species, the [[western square-tailed drongo]] (''Dicrurus occidentalis'').

Four subspecies are recognised:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Orioles, drongos, fantails | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/orioles/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=4 February 2019 }}</ref>
* ''D. l. muenzneri'' [[Anton Reichenow|Reichenow]], 1915 – south Somalia and east Kenya to Tanzania, north Mozambique
* ''D. l. saturnus'' [[Phillip Clancey|Clancey]], 1976 – Angola (except northwest), north Zambia, north Mozambique
* ''D. l. tephrogaster'' Clancey, 1975 – Malawi, south and central Mozambique
* ''D. l. ludwigii'' ([[Andrew Smith (zoologist)|Smith, A]], 1834) – South Africa to [[Limpopo River]]