Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833) . S. Afr. Quart. J., 2:59.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Port Natal (= Durban) .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal and Sierra Leone east to Somalia and S Yemen and south to South Africa and Namibia.

SYNONYMS: colias, herero, planirostris, pondoensis (see C. B. Robbins et al., 1985).

COMMENTS: Placed in leucogaster by Koopman (1975:414-416, as nigrita; 1986) and Koopman et al. (1978:4-5); but see also Schütter et al. (1980).