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The red avadavat was [[Species description|formally described]] by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1758 in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' under the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''FrigillaFringilla amandava''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=180 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | ___location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727087 }}</ref> Linnaeus based his description on "The Amaduvads Cock and Hen" that has been described and illustrated in 1738 by the English naturalist [[Eleazar Albin]].<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Albin | first1=Eleazar | author1-link=Eleazar Albin | last2=Derham | first2=William | author2-link=William Derham | year=1738 | title=A Natural History of Birds : Illustrated with a Hundred and One Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life | volume=3 | page=72, Plate 77 | ___location=London | publisher=Printed for the author and sold by William Innys | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41131128 }}</ref> Linnaeus specified the [[type locality (biology)|locality]] as East India but this was restricted to [[Kolkata]] (Calcutta) by [[E. C. Stuart Baker]] in 1921.<ref name=baker>{{ cite journal | last=Baker | first=E.C. Stuart | author-link=E. C. Stuart Baker | date=1921 | title=Hand-list of the "Birds of India" Part III | journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society | volume=27 | pages=692–744 [725] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30359388 }}</ref><ref name=paynter>{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1968 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=14 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | ___location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=348 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481549 }}</ref> This species is now placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Amandava]]'' that was introduced in 1836 by the English zoologist [[Edward Blyth]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=White | first=Gilbert | author-link=Gilbert White | editor-last=Blyth | editor-first=Edward | editor-link=Edward Blyth | date=1836 | title=The Natural History of Selborne, with its Antiquites; Naturalist's Calendar, &c. | ___location=London | publisher=Orr and Smith | page=44, Footnote | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47719792 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/waxbills/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=14 July 2021 }}</ref>
The red avadavat were earlier included in the genus ''Estrilda'' by Jean Delacour. This placement was followed for a while but morphological,<ref>{{cite journal| journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club|year= 1962| volume=82|title=The affinities of the Red Avadavat, Amandava amandava (Linn.)|author=Harrison, C.J.O.|pages=126–132|url= https://archive.org/stream/bulletinofbritis82brit#page/126/mode/2up}}</ref> behavioural, biochemical<ref>{{cite journal| title= Biochemical systematics within Palaeotropic finches (Aves: Estrildidae) |author=Christidis, L|pages= 380–392| journal=The Auk| volume=104| issue = 3| year=1987| url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v104n03/p0380-p0392.pdf| doi= 10.2307/4087534|jstor=4087534}}</ref> and DNA studies now support their separation in the genus ''Amandava''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=An ethological comparison of some waxbills (Estrildini), and its relevance to their taxonomy|author=Harrison, CJO| year=1962| journal= Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| volume=139| issue=2| pages=261–282| doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb01830.x}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Delacour | first=Jean|year=1943| title= A revision of the subfamily Estrildinae of the family Ploceidae| journal=Zoologica |pages=69–86 |volume=28 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51008602 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| year= 2007| journal= Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science| volume= 116| issue= 1| pages= 90–107| title= Skeletal characters and the systematics of Estrildid finches (Aves:Estrildidae)| last= Webster | first=J.D. | url= http://www.indianaacademyofscience.org/Documents/Proceedings/V116/Proc_v116_1_2007_pp90-107.aspx| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110524004704/http://www.indianaacademyofscience.org/Documents/Proceedings/V116/Proc_v116_1_2007_pp90-107.aspx| archive-date= 2011-05-24}}</ref>
