Neoromicia somalica (Thomas, 1901)

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 : 99

Neoromicia somalica (Thomas, 1901)

Fig. 45 A–B

Vespertilio minutus somalicus Thomas, 1901: 32 .

Representatives of this species were collected at four localities, two in western DRC (Lukolela, Mai- Ndombe Province and Mbwambala, Kwilu Province), one in northeastern DRC (Mboga, Ituri Province), and one in Rwanda (Karama). The SMF has furthermore a specimen from a non-disclosed locality in the DRC. Van Cakenberghe & Happold (2013h: 654) show that the distribution area of somalica forms a narrow band from southern Senegal over Guinea, Sierra Leone, northern Côte d’Ivoire, southern Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Central African Republic, South Sudan, splitting up in a branch towards Ethiopia and northern Somalia and a second branch to Uganda, eastern Rwanda, northern Tanzania, southern Kenya and reaching into southern Somalia. There are also scattered records from Congo and the DRC and some uncertain records from southern Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola and RSA. As indicated by Van Cakenberghe & Happold, some of these latter records might represent the N. zuluensis .

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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.