Aselliscus major, (K. Andersen, 1912)

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 : 50

Nycteris major (K. Andersen, 1912)

Fig. 22 C–D

Petalia major K. Andersen, 1912: 547 .

* Nycteris major ( Andersen, 1912) .

Hayman et al. (1966: 36) only mention the type specimen of N. avakubia as representative of N. major in the DRC. However, on map 32, they have two dots, and neither of them refers to the type locality of avakubia , which is Avakubi (Tshopo Province). The two dots seem to refer to the two AMNH specimens reported by Allen (1917: 427) as belonging to N. major (49399 from the Garamba National Park and 49422 from Faradje), but of which Koopman (1965: 6) indicated that they actually belong to N. macrotis . Koopman (1965) furthermore refers to two additional specimens reported by Schouteden (1947): one from Macaco (Kasaï Province; reported for the first time by Kershaw 1923) and one from Boma (Kongo Central Province). These specimens were re-identified by Hayman et al. (1966: 35) and Van Cakenberghe & De Vree (1985: 80) as N. macrotis .

Figures

Fig. 22. Distribution maps. A–B. Nycteris macrotis Dobson, 1876. C–D. Nycteris major (K. Andersen, 1912). E–F. Nycteris nana (K. Andersen, 1912). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan- African distribution.