Hipposideros ruber (Noack 1893)

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 : 381

Hipposideros ruber (Noack 1893)

This species is represented by just five individuals recorded at three sites in northern Mozambique, which constitute the second record of this species for Mozambique ( Fenton, 1986). This species is considerably larger than H. caffer from which it can reliably be distinguished by forearm length (> 50 mm in H. ruber and <49 mm in H. caffer ), and also the enlarged nasal compartments ( Fenton, 1986). Little is known about the ecology of this species in Southern Africa and only a few specimens have been collected in the region. Peak echolocation frequencies ranged between 130.5 (Pettersson D240x, n = 1) and 132–136 kHz (ANABAT, n = 4).

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 51.7 ± 0.71 (51.2–52.7, 4); Bm (adult male) 10.3 ± 0.50 (10.0–11.0, 4); FA (adult female) 50.0 (1); Bm (adult female) 9.0 (1).