Todiramphus nigrocyaneus Wallace, 1862

Nominate nigrocyaneus in which the male has blue underparts with a white throat and a white bar on the upper belly on the W Papuan Islands, the Vogelkop Peninsula, and in SW New Guinea, quadricolor in which the male has white throat, blue breast, and a rufous belly on Yapen and further east on the northern mainland of New Guinea, and stictolaemus in which the male has largely uniform blue underparts in S & SE New Guinea.