Glauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875)

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 : 84

Glauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875)

Fig. 38 C–D

Chalinolobus argentatus Dobson, 1875: 385 .

* Glauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875) .

Hayman et al. (1966: 49) mention 72 records for this species, of which at least one (RMCA 16213; Mukishi, Haut-Lomami Province) was re-identified as G. variegata (Wim Wendelen, pers. comm.). They also they mentioned the same museum numbers for the series from Boma and Butembo. These numbers apply for the Butembo specimens and the correct numbers for the Boma series are 6571 to 6576 and 7250). Their map 61 contains two localities we cannot identify from the specimens they listed. One of these is most probably Ibembo (Bas-Uélé Province), where they reported G. beatrix (see map 62), and another one is in Kasaï Province.

Within the CRB area, G. argentata occurs in three separate regions: one along the eastern border of the DRC (Ituri, Nord- and Sud-Kivu Provinces) and Rwanda and Burundi. A second region is at the mouth of the Congo River (Kongo Central Province), and a third runs from Mbandaka (Equateur Province) over Boende and Ikela (Tshuapa Province), Lodja (Sankuru Province) to Kananga (Kasaï-Central Province). This agrees very well with the map given by Happold (2013 ab: 565), although she also cites the “Ibembo” record listed above. Extralimitally, the species occurs in the coastal areas of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, southwestern Kenya, northeastern Tanzania, northern Malawi and Angola. The SDM map suggests that G. argentata might be more widespread over central and eastern Africa, from southern Nigeria in the west to Kenya and Tanzania in the east, between 5° N and 10° S.

Figures

Fig. 38. Distribution maps. A–B. Glauconycteris alboguttata J.A. Allen, 1917. C–D. Glauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875). E–F. Glauconycteris beatrix Thomas, 1901. A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.