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Bar-throated Apalis
Apalis thoracica · Family Cisticolidae
Apalis thoracica
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 150,679
- Countries and territories with records
- 15
About this species
This species has 150,679 occurrence records from 15 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (93.7%), Zimbabwe (3.7%) and Tanzania (1.2%); together they account for 98.6% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.35% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Apalis thoracica combines the genus name Apalis with the species epithet thoracica. The Warbla app catalog lists 22 species of the genus Apalis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Apalis flavida, Apalis ruddi and Apalis cinerea.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 3.1 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.