Mimetillus thomasi Hinton, 1920

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 : 94

Mimetillus thomasi Hinton, 1920

Fig. 43 A–B

Mimetillus thomasi Hinton, 1920: 240 .

Although Fahr (2013o: 586) considers thomasi to be a subspecies of M. moloneyi , we follow Cotterill (2001b: 215), who proposed that the two are distinct evolutionary species, a view that was followed by Monadjem et al. (2010a: 390, 2010b: 444). The distribution map presented by Monadjem et al. (2010b: 444) indicates that M. thomasi occurs in the northern part of southern Africa, from Angola over southern DRC, Zambia and Zimbabwe to western and northern Mozambique. The DRC specimen from Elisabethville (= Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga Province) reported here fits within this range.

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Fig. 43. Distribution maps. A–B. Mimetillus thomasi Hinton, 1920. C–D. Neoromicia brunnea (Thomas, 1880). E–F. Neoromicia capensis (A. Smith, 1829). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan- African distribution.