Chaerephon nigeriae Thomas, 1913

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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).

Figures

Fig. 26. Distribution maps. A–B. Chaerephon major (Trouessart, 1897). C–D. Chaerephon nigeriae Thomas, 1913. E–F. Chaerephon pumilus (Cretzschmar, 1826). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.