Chaerephon bemmeleni (Jentink, 1879)

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 bemmeleni (Jentink, 1879)

Fig. 24 C–D

Nyctinomus Bemmeleni Jentink, 1879: 125 .

* Tadarida (Tadarida) cistura ( Thomas, 1903) : 502.

Based on morphological comparisons, Peterson (1971b: 1347) found that cistura is only an eastern African subspecies of bemmeleni . Hayman et al. (1966: 67, map 110) reported the species from two localities in the Nord-Kivu Province, and no additional specimens were found.

Fahr (2013l: 498) indicates that C. bemmeleni is known from five localities in West Africa ( Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon) and from approximately 17 localities in eastern Africa, ranging from South Sudan, over Uganda and northeastern DRC into the border area between Kenya and Tanzania. Furthermore, he also plotted an additional locality in Maniema Province, but without providing details.

Figures

Fig. 24. Distribution maps. A–B. Chaerephon ansorgei (Thomas, 1913). C–D. Chaerephon bemmeleni (Jentink, 1879). E–F. Chaerephon bivittatus (Heuglin, 1861). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.