Chaerephon nigeriae Thomas, 1913

Fig. 26 C–D

Chaerephon nigeriae Thomas, 1913: 319 .

* Tadarida (Chaerephon) nigeriae Thomas, 1913 .

* Tadarida (Chaerephon) spillmanni (Monard, 1933): 51.

Contrary to most other changes proposed by Koopman, Hayman et al. (1966: 64) did not follow Koopman (1965: 21), who suggested that there is “no good reason to regard spillmanni as anything except a subspecies of T. (C.) nigeriae .” They indicated (p. 62) that the different wing colour separates the two species. According to their maps (94 and 97), the dark-winged nigeriae occurs in the northeastern part of the DRC (Haut-Uélé Province) and the light-winged spillmanni in the southeastern part (Tanganyika, Haut-Katanga and Haut-Lomami Provinces). One additional record comes from Tandala (Equateur Province), in the northwestern part of the DRC. With the exception of the last record, Cotterill & Happold (2013d: 524) plotted all of the DRC specimens. The southeastern records are part of an area also covering the north/western parts of Zambia. A further large area is found in Zimbabwe-Botswana, and they also drew smaller areas in Ghana, southern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, northern Central African Republic, central Ethiopia and south-central Angola, and individual localities in Guinea, Niger, South Sudan, Tanzania and Namibia. The SDM map suggests a much wider distribution in southern Africa (supported by material from northeastern RSA; ACR 2016: 1133).