Scotophilus nux Thomas, 1904 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 13:208.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Efulen .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone to Kenya.

COMMENT: Has been most often recognized as a subspecies of nigrita (see Allen, 1939, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 83:1 -763; Rosevear, 1965, The Bats of West Africa, Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), 418 pp.; Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2:50). Koopman et al., 1978, Am. Mus. Novit., 2643:4- 5 listed it as a subspecies of leucogaster .