Scotonycteris bergmansi Hassanin et al., 2015

Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382), pp. 1-327 : 24

Scotonycteris bergmansi Hassanin et al., 2015

Fig. 9 E–F

Scotonycteris bergmansi Hassanin, Khouider, Gembu, Goodman, Kadjo, Nesi, Pourrut, Nakouné & Bonillo, 2015: 206 .

* Scotonycteris zenkeri Matschie, 1894: 202 .

Hassanin et al. (2015) reviewed the Scotonycterini tribe, which contained four species: Scotonycteris zenkeri Matschie, 1894 , Casinycteris argynnis Thomas, 1910 , C. campomaanensis Hassanin, 2014 , and C. ophiodon (Pohle, 1943) . Their analyses of cytochrome b and nuclear DNA revealed that S. zenkeri should be split up into four clades representing three species: the extralimital (to CRB) S. zenkeri and S. occidentalis Hayman, 1947 , and S. bergmansi Hassanin et al., 2015 occurring in the rainforests of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Congo, southern Central African Republic, and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hassanin et al. (2015) also found sufficient differences between the population from the western part of the distribution area ( Gabon to Central African Republic) and the eastern part of the DRC to recognize two subspecies: the western S. b. bergmansi and the eastern S. b. congoensis Hassanin et al., 2015.

Hayman et al. (1966: 21) reported this species (as S. zenkeri ) from Beni and Kiloboze (with the erroneous number RMCA 3145), in the extreme eastern part of the DRC. The new records extend the occurrence of the species much more to the west, up to the region around Boende in Tshuapa Province. Kipalu (2009) reported a specimen of S. zenkeri from near Mbanza-Ngungu (Kongo Central Province), but no details were given on voucher specimens.

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Fig. 9. Distribution maps. A–B. Rousettus aegyptiacus (E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1810). C–D. Casinycteris argynnis Thomas, 1910. E–F. Scotonycteris bergmansi Hassanin et al., 2015. A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.