Chaerephon chapini J.A. Allen, 1917

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 : 54

Chaerephon chapini J.A. Allen, 1917

Fig. 25 A–B

Chaerephon (Lophomops) chapini J.A. Allen, 1917: 460 , 461.

* Tadarida (Chaerephon) chapini J.A. Allen, 1917 Hayman et al. (1966: 61, map 92) reported chapini from three localities: Banana Creek (Kongo Central Province), Léopoldville (Kinshasa City Province) and Faradje (Haut-Uélé Province). The two former are in the western part of the DRC, whereas the latter is in the northeast. There is one additional specimen from Masha in northwestern Rwanda. Happold & Cotterill (2013: 504) plotted two additional localities in southeastern DRC, but in their text they only refer to northeastern and southwestern DRC. Furthermore, they plotted individual localities in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, as well as small distribution areas in western Kenya, northern Botswana and the western boundary between Namibia and Angola. The SDM map indicates that the species can occur in the countries between Ghana and South Sudan, although the Central African Republic doesn’t seem to be that favorable. Furthermore, it might occur in a major part of Tanzania, Malawi and the western part of Mozambique.

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Fig. 25. Distribution maps. A–B. Chaerephon chapini J.A. Allen, 1917. C–D. Chaerephon gallagheri (Harrison, 1975). E–F. Chaerephon leucogaster (A. Grandidier, 1869). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.