Miniopterus fraterculus Thomas & Schwann, 1906

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 : 72-73

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Miniopterus fraterculus Thomas & Schwannn, 1906: 162 .

Koopman (1965: 18) refers to Harrison (1953: 71), who revised the Miniopterus forms of southern Africa, where he distinguished two species: “the large natalensis and the small fraterculus ”. Unfortunately, however, this distinction doesn’t seem to hold (see key).

Hayman et al. (1966: 59–60) assigned most of their material to Miniopterus schreibersi villiersi and only 15 specimens from two localities to M. s. vicinior. The latter are plotted on their map 90, but no separate map was presented for M. s. villiersi . Apparently, these specimens were included on map 88 ( M. inflatus ).

In “ Mammals of Africa ”, Bernard & Happold (2013d: 713; 2013e: 719) restrict M. fraterculus to the northwestern part of the DRC and M. natalensis to the southeastern part. We are following this division for the CRB material, with specimens from the DRC provinces of Haut-Uélé, Ituri, Nord-Kivu, and Sud-Kivu, as well as from Rwanda and Burundi being assigned to M. fraterculus and those from the provinces of Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami and Haut-Katanga to M. natalensis . However, we also assigned records from more southwestern localities to the latter species: Luluabourg (= Kananga, Kasaï-Central Province) and near Thysville (= Mbanza-Ngongo, Kongo Central Province).

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Bernard R. T. F. & Happold M. 2013 d. Miniopterus fraterculus Lesser Long-fingered Bat. In: Happold M. & Happold D. (eds) Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats: 712 - 714. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.

Bernard R. T. F. & Happold M. 2013 e. Miniopterus natalensis Natal Long-fingered Bat (Natal Clinging Bat). In: Happold M. & Happold D. (eds) Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats: 718 - 720. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.

Harrison D. L. 1953. Some systematic notes on the long-fingered bats of the genus Miniopterus Bonaparte occurring in South Africa and Madagascar. Durban Museum Novitates 4 (5): 65 - 75. Available from https: // journals. co. za / deliver / fulltext / admn / 4 / 5 / 1671. pdf? itemId = / content / admn / 4 / 5 / AJA 0012723 X _ 16 70 & mimeType = pdf & containerItemId = content / journal / admn [accessed 29 Nov. 2017].

Hayman R. W., Misonne X. & Verheyen W. N. 1966. The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi. Annalen van het Koninklijk Museum voor Midden Afrika, Zoologische Wetenschappen, Ser. 8, 154: 1 - 105.

Koopman K. F. 1965. Status of forms described or recorded by J. A. Allen in the American Museum Congo Expedition of Bats . American Museum Novitates 2219: 1 - 34. Available from http: // hdl. handle. net / 2246 / 4012 [accessed 29 Nov. 2017].