Lavia frons (Geoffroy, 1810), 1838

Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382), pp. 1-327 : 34

Lavia frons (Geoffroy, 1810)

Fig 14 A–B

Megaderma frons E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810 : 192.

* Lavia frons frons (E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1810) .

In CRB, Lavia frons is widely distributed along the eastern part of the DRC, Rwanda and Burundi. The records from the western part of the DRC are more patchy and were all previously reported by Hayman et al. (1966: 37, map 35). Its Pan-African distribution stretches in a band between 15° N and 10° S, where it occurs in the woodland savanna zones from West Africa to eastern Africa, in coastal mosaic, open degraded riverine forests in the Rainforest BZ of the central Congo Basin, East African Coastal Forest Mosaic and miombo woodland. In arid areas, it is found in bush country surrounding lakes, marshes and along rivers ( Happold 2013o: 407).

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Fig. 14. Distribution maps. A–B. Lavia frons (E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1810). C–D. Rhinolophus alcyone Temminck, 1852. E–F. Rhinolophus blasii Peters, 1867. A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.