Kaliwatan sa bakukangon ang Cylindera octoguttata.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni Fabricius ni adtong 1787.^[2] Ang Cylindera octoguttata sakop sa kahenera nga Cylindera, ug kabanay nga Carabidae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• Gambia
• Habagatang Aprika
• Zimbabwe
• Etyopiya
• Guinea
• Kamerun
• Congo
• Burundi
• Anggola
• Namibya
• Senegal
• Sudan
• Ghana
• Benin
• Togo
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liberya
• Mali
• Nigyeriya
• Gabon
• Gineang Ekwatoryal
• Tunga-tungang Aprikanhong Republika
• Demokratikanhong Republika sa Konggo
• Kotidaybor
• Isla de Bioko

Ang kaliwatan gibahinbahin ngadto sa matang nga nahiubos:^[1]

• C. o. magnoreducta
• C. o. octoguttata

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 40080573. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ LORENZ, Wolfgang M.T. (2005) Nomina Carabidarum. A directory of the scientific names of ground beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera "Geadephaga": Trachypachidae and Carabidae incl. Paussinae, Cicindelinae, Rhysodinae). 2. Edition. - , 993 pp. (Tutzing: W.LORENZ).
3. ↑ Lorenz W. (2019). CarabCat: Global database of ground beetles (version Oct 2017). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.