Eptesicus hottentotus (A. Smith 1833)

Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2), pp. 371-391 : 383

Eptesicus hottentotus (A. Smith 1833)

A single specimen was collected in the Manho forest (1800 m) on the plateau of Mount Namuli. Previously, a single specimen was collected from Chiutu in the Zambezi Valley ( Smithers and Lobão Tello, 1976). The species has been extensively recorded across Southern Africa, as far west as Angola, and as far north as Kenya ( Simmons, 2005; Monadjem et al., 2010). The species is often associated with mountainous terrain, including records from nearby Mount Mulanje ( Kearney et al., 2008). Its occurrence in Afromontane forest on Mount Namuli is therefore somewhat unsurprising.

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 47.6 (1).