Latitudinal range: -10.9° to 7.1°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (8), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (5)

Found in 13 samples

Angola: Kumbira Forest

Cameroon: Nyong River

Ivory Coast: Bossematié Forest (selective cleaning), Bossematié Forest (control)

Kenya: Kakamega Forest

Nigeria: Shasha Forest Reserve (36 mm mesh), Shasha Forest Reserve (61 mm mesh)

Tanzania: Amani Site 10

Uganda: Makerere University Biological Field Station (unlogged), Makerere University Biological Field Station (logged), Budongo Forest Reserve Compartment N3, Zika Forest (inside), Makerere University Biological Field Station Compartment K-15

See also Spermophaga haematina, Spermophaga ruficapilla