Casinycteris argynnis Thomas, 1910

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

Casinycteris argynnis Thomas, 1910

Fig. 9 C–D

* Casinycteris argynnis Thomas, 1910: 111 .

Hayman et al. (1966: 21, map 1) only mentioned three specimens from Irangi, Stanleyville and Medje in the northeastern part of the DRC and one further unnumbered and unmapped specimen from Luluabourg in the former Kasai Province. Meirte (1983) and Bergmans (1991: fig 4) already expanded its distribution in the DRC further to the west, and Hassanin et al. (2015: 198) indicated that C. argynnis is endemic to the Congo Basin, from southeastern Cameroon and eastern Gabon in the west, across southwestern Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo and all provinces of the DRC, except Bas-Congo, to the Mitumba Mountains in eastern DRC. The latter, however, doesn’t seem to be substantiated entirely by specimens we were able to trace.

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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.