Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar, 1826) . In Riippell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth., p. 71.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, Kordofan, Brunnen Nedger (Nedger Well) .

DISTRIBUTION: Mauritania and Senegal to N Kenya and Ethiopia.

SYNONYMS: altilis, flavigaster, murinoflavus, nucella .

COMMENTS: Does not include damarensis, see Koopman (1986); but see C. B. Robbins et al. (1985). Includes nucella; but see C. B. Robbins et al. (1985). For scope of this species see Koopman (1975:414-416; as nigrita) and Koopman et al. (1978:4-5). However, Robbins (1978:212-213) has shown that the name nigrita was misapplied to another species, for which the next available name was dinganii, and which would be included in leucogaster if Koopman's (1975) reasoning were followed. However, Schütter et al. (1980) listed dinganii as distinct from leucogaster, as did C. B. Robbins et al. (1985). See Koopman (1986).