Myotis welwitschii (Gray, 1866)

Fig. 36 C–D

Scotophilus welwitschii Gray, 1866: 211 .

* Myotis welwitschi venustus (Matschie, 1899) .

The validity of the subspecies venustus was already doubted prior to Hayman et al. (1966), e.g., by Kershaw (1922: 181) and Frechkop (1954: 19), and this view was later confirmed by Kock (1967: 324).

In the DRC, Hayman et al. (1966: 52, map 71) reported this species from Nord-Kivu Province in the east and from the southeastern provinces of Haut-Lomami, Haut-Katanga and Lualaba. More recently, it has been found in Rwanda and Burundi. Happold (2013 ao: 709) gives a patchy distribution in eastern and southern Africa, from Ethiopia to the RSA, with an extension into the southern part of the DRC and Angola. She also plotted two separate localities in Guinea and Cameroon.