Rhinolophus denti Thomas 1904

Rhinolophus denti Thomas 1904, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 13: 386.

Type Locality: South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., Kuruman.

Vernacular Names: Dent's Horseshoe Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Rhinolophus denti subsp. denti Thomas 1904

Subspecies Rhinolophus denti subsp. knorri Eisentraut 1960

Distribution: Northern Cape Prov. (South Africa), Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ghana. A Côte d’Ivoire record is incorrect (it actually represents landeri; J. Fahr, pers. comm.), and reports from Gambia similarly seem to represent misidentified landeri (Kock et al., 2002) .

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: capensis species group. May include swinnyi, see discussion in Csorba et al. (2003).