Taphozous perforatus E. Geoffroy St., 1818

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 : 46

Taphozous perforatus E. Geoffroy St. -Hilaire, 1818

Fig. 20 C–D

Taphozous perforatus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818: 126 .

* Taphozous sudani Thomas, 1915: 561 .

Rosevear (1965: 150–151) compared material of both T. perforatus and T. sudani , and found that the only character distinguishing the two taxa is the darker pelage in sudani , generally combined with white wings. He also found a specimen with intermediate characters, which led him to retain sudani only as a mere subspecies of perforatus . This view was followed by most subsequent authors (e.g., Kock 1969: 74; Hayman & Hill 1971: 16; Koopman 1975: 370).

With the exception of a few extra specimens from the same localities, all the material reported in this paper was already mentioned by Hayman et al. (1966: 32). The SDM map shows that T. perforatus primarily occurs in sub-Saharan Africa, above the equator, with a few records reported from northern Botswana and southern Zimbabwe.

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Fig. 20. Distribution maps. A–B. Taphozous nudiventris Cretzschmar, 1830. C–D. Taphozous perforatus E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1818. E–F. Nycteris arge Thomas, 1903. A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.