Mops (Mops) demonstrator ( Thomas, 1903 )

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 : 62

Mops (Mops) demonstrator ( Thomas, 1903)

Fig. 28 A–B

Nyctinomus demonstrator Thomas, 1903: 504 .

* Tadarida (Mops) demonstrator ( Thomas, 1903) .

For this species, Hayman et al. (1966: 65) mention a number of localities in or near the Garamba National Park (Haut-Uélé Province). A number of specimens they mentioned as Tadarida (Mops) niveiventer from Keyberg (near Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga Province) were re-identified by R.L. Peterson (Wim Wendelen, pers. comm.). This is rather strange as Fahr (2013n: 510) indicates that demonstrator only occurs in the northeastern part of the DRC, northwards along the River Nile to northern South Sudan and along the Blue Nile in Sudan. He also plotted a number of individual localities in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Burkina Faso. All of these are north of the equator. However, there is one additional specimen from Mushe, Rwanda (RMCA 37983), which more or less bridges the gap between Haut- Uélé and Haut-Katanga. Based on climatic data, the SDM map makes the extension towards Rwanda conceivable, but a further expansion to Haut-Katanga is still dubious.

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Fig. 28. Distribution maps. A–B. Mops (Mops) demonstrator (Thomas, 1903). C–D. Mops (Mops) midas (Sundevall, 1843). E–F. Mops (Mops) niangarae J.A. Allen, 1917. A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.