Mops brachypterus leonis Thomas, 1908

Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2), pp. 359-375 : 368

Mops brachypterus leonis Thomas, 1908

This species was not previously recorded from Nimba. During this survey, this species was sparsely captured flying above water at small forest streams on both the Liberian and Guinean sides of the mountain, at low altitudes 450 to 550 m a.s.l. The taxon leonis is widely distribution in the Afrotropical forest zone from Sierra Leone to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC) and may be distinct from the taxon brachypterus , which is restricted to coastal East Africa and western Uganda (Thorn and Kerbis Peterhans, 2009). The relationship between these two taxa needs to be investigated.