T. p. senegalensis Desmarest, 1820[7] — West Africa T. p. perforatus É. Geoffroy, 1818[2] — Egypt and northern Sudan T. p. sudani Thomas, 1915[8] — Southern Sudan, South Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana, and Zimbabwe T. p. haedinus Thomas, 1915[9] — Tanzania through Ethiopia and in South Asia.