Neoromicia tenuipinnis (Peters, 1872)

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Neoromicia tenuipinnis (Peters, 1872)

Fig. 45 C–D

Vesperus tenuipinnis Peters, 1872: 236 .

* Eptesicus tenuipinnis (Peters, 1872) .

* Eptesicus tenuipinnis ater (J.A. Allen, 1917) : 443.

Hayman et al. (1966: 47, 48, map 59) showed that tenuipinnis was frequently captured in the southwestern part of the DRC (from Banana in Kongo Central Province to the area of Mbandaka in Equateur Province) and in the northeastern part (provinces of Bas-Uélé, Haut-Uélé, Ituri and Nord- Kivu). In the southeast they reach Kabongo (northern Haut-Lomami Province). The species seems to be missing in the southeastern provinces of Haut-Katanga and Tanganyika. More recently, specimens were collected in the northwestern part of the country (Tandala, Sud-Ubangi Province and Yalosemba, Mongala Province), and in northern Rwanda and western Burundi. Fahr (2013r: 656) reported that tenuipinnis is recorded from the lowland rainforest, swamp forest and coastal forests as well as from montane forest, mangroves, forest-savanna mosaic, Isoberlinia woodland, Acacia-Commiphora bushland and thicket and miombo woodland. Within the rainforest, it seems to prefer drier types of forest along the periphery.

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Fig. 45. Distribution maps. A–B. Neoromicia somalica (Thomas, 1901). C–D. Neoromicia tenuipinnis (Peters, 1872). E–F. Neoromicia zuluensis (Roberts, 1924). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.