Micropteropus intermedius Hayman, 1963

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Micropteropus intermedius Hayman, 1963

Fig. 6 C–D

* Micropteropus intermedius Hayman, 1963: 100 .

Hayman et al. (1966: 27, map 13) reported two specimens belonging to this species, one from Thysville (= Mbanza-Ngungu) and one from Luluabourg (= Kananga). One additional specimen was reported by Bergmans (1989: 101) from “Banana/Netonna”. Here, we add two further specimens from Luluabourg. All of these localities are relatively close to the Angolan border, where the holotype was collected.

As indicated by Bergmans (1989: 103) a number of these specimens were originally assigned to other, similar-sized epomophorine species (e.g., M. pusillus or Epomophorus grandis [not yet reported from

CRB]) due to the careless preservation or examination of the soft palate. Therefore, we cannot exclude that some of the specimens reported here as M. pusillus might belong to the current species.

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Fig. 6. Distribution maps. A–B. Hypsignathus monstrosus H. Allen, 1862. C–D. Micropteropus intermedius Hayman, 1963. E–F. Micropteropus pusillus (Peters, 1867). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.