Myonycteris relicta Bergmans 1980

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 : 371-391

Myonycteris relicta Bergmans 1980

A single specimen of this rarely collected species was captured in Chinizuia Forest and constitutes a new species record for Mozambique. The only other record for Southern Africa is from southeast Zimbabwe on the Mozambique border at the Haroni-Rusiti confluence; elsewhere the species occurs in coastal forests of East Africa ( Bergmans, 1997).

Field measurements: FA (juvenile female) 71.1 (1); Bm (juvenile female) 52 (1).