Dwerg bijeneter

Wetgeving: nvt

Muller, PLS 1776
Wetenschappelijk:  Merops pusillus
 
Engels:   Little Bee-eater
Frans:     Guêpier nain
Duits:      Zwergspint

Orde:        Coraciiformes
Familie:    Meropidae
Geslacht: Merops

Soort status: full species 

Geografisch bereik:  

• Merops pusillus pusillus: savannas from Senegambia to Cameroon, Sudan and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Merops pusillus ocularis: northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (east of the range of pusillus) northeast to the Red Sea coast of Sudan and northern Eritrea and Ethiopia
• Merops pusillus cyanostictus: E Ethiopia to Somalia and e Kenya
• Merops pusillus meridionalis: Congo basin to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and western Kenya south to eastern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
• Merops pusillus argutus: SW Angola to sw Zambia and Botswana