Scotophilus nux Thomas, 1904 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 13:208.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Efulen .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone to Kenya.

COMMENTS: S. nux has been most often recognized as a subspecies of nigrita, when nigrita was used for the species now called dinganii; see Allen (1939), Rosevear (1965), and Hayman and Hill (1971:50). Koopman et al. (1978:4-5) listed it as a subspecies of leucogaster .