Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar, 1826)

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 : 82

Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar, 1826)

Fig. 37 A–B

Nycticejus leucogaster Cretzschmar, 1826: 71 .

* Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar, 1826) .

Hayman et al. (1966: 56–57, map 82) mention one locality in the DRC (Faradje, Haut-Uélé Province), and refer to Koopman (1965: 17) who indicated that Pachyotus altilis (the name under which Allen 1917: 447 reported these specimens) is a synonym of S. l. leucogaster . Allen (1917) and Hayman et al. (1966) report on two specimens, whereas the AMNH catalog mentions three. The third specimen (AMNH 49283, a foetal specimen) has the same original number (1865) as AMNH 49015 (an adult female).

Only one additional specimen has been reported since: MHNG 1896.016 from Mweya, Burundi.

The map presented by Van Cakenberghe & Happold (2013i: 677) shows S. leucogaster to be present in a number of areas south of the Sahara: Senegal / Gambia; Guinea / Sierra Leone; Burkina Faso /northern Ghana to southwestern Chad; central Sudan; central Ethiopia; northeastern DRC; southwestern Zambia /northern Namibia /northern Botswana /western Zimbabwe. They also plotted individual records from Mauritania, Côte d’Ivoire, Central African Republic, Uganda, Kenya, western Angola and Namibia, and Mozambique. The SDM map suggests a sub-Saharan distribution, with a northward extention along the River Nile. The species probably will not occur in eastern Ethiopia, Eritrea or Somalia, in the central African rain forest or in southern Africa, except for the northeastern tip of the RSA and southern Mozambique.

Figures

Fig. 37. Distribution maps. A–B. Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar, 1826). C–D. Scotophilus nigrita (Schreber, 1774). E–F. Scotophilus nux Thomas, 1904. A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.