Petalia parisii, (de Beaux, 1924)

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 : 50-52

Nycteris parisii (de Beaux, 1924)

Fig. 23 A–B

Petalia parisii de Beaux, 1924 (for 1923): 254.

The systematic position of Nycteris parisii isn’t completely clear yet. Van Cakenberghe & De Vree (1985: 81) included it in N. woodi K. Andersen, 1914 , but Cotterill (2013b: 456) considered it a separate species.

There is one specimen from Mount Né, near Blukwa (Ituri Province), which is in between the eastern African records from Ethiopia and Somalia on the one hand and the record from Cameroon on the other

hand. Cotterill (2013b: 457) indicates that it occurs in the Sudan savanna, the Somalia-Masai bushland and the coastal forest mosaic biotic zones.

Figures

Fig. 23. Distribution maps. A–B. Nycteris parisii (de Beaux, 1924). C–D. Nycteris thebaica E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1818. E–F. Chaerephon aloysiisabaudiae (Festa, 1907). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.