Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Peters 1878

Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Peters 1878, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1878: 195.

Type Locality: Kenya, Taita, Ndi.

Vernacular Names: Hildebrandt's Horseshoe Bat.

Distribution: NE South Africa and Mozambique to Ethiopia, S Sudan, and NE Dem. Rep. Congo; Nigeria.

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

Discussion: fumigatus species group. See Taylor (2000 a) for distribution map. See Fahr et al. (2002) for information on Nigerian record. Sometimes spelled " hildebranti," but the original spelling is " hildebrantii.".