Myotis tricolor (Temminck, 1832)

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 : 78-80

Myotis tricolor (Temminck, 1832)

Fig. 36 A–B

Vespertilio tricolor Temminck, 1832: 106 .

In general, M. tricolor primarily occurs in eastern and southern Africa, from Ethiopia to the RSA, only touching the eastern border of CRB ( Bernard 2013: 707). The record from a cave near Thysville (RMCA 16450; Hayman et al. 1966: 52) is, therefore, already far to the west, but not impossible as Koopman (1989: 7) reported a specimen from Liberia, and ACR (2016: 1207) reported another from Nigeria.

Figures

Fig. 36. Distribution maps. A–B. Myotis tricolor (Temminck, 1832). C–D. Myotis welwitschii (Gray, 1866). E–F. Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan- African distribution.