Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Peters, 1878

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Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Peters, 1878

Fig. 16 A–B

Rhinolophus Hildebrandtii Peters, 1878: 195 .

* Rhinolophus hildebrandti Peters, 1878 .

Hayman et al. (1966: 39) distinguished two forms in R. hildebrandtii ; one they identified to subspecific level (see below) and one to specific level. However, they only included one distribution map (map 41) for these two forms. The distribution within CRB was restricted to the eastern part of the DRC and Rwanda, with specimens in the Congolese provinces of Nord-Kivu, Ituri and Haut-Uélé in the north on the one hand and in Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami and Haut-Katanga Provinces in the south on the other hand. Some of the specimens from Rwanda (Magachi, INPBC V1903; Lugarama, INPBC 3041) were re-identified as R. fumigatus , which might account for the remark made by Monfort (1992: 146) on the species being plotted on map 41 in Hayman et al. (1966), but being absent in their listing. Additional specimens of R. hildebrandtii are reported from Burundi and the southern Congolese provinces, but also from Gangala-na-Bodio (Haut-Uélé Province, RMCA 26664 and 26665) and Ibembo (Bas-Uélé Province, RMCA 89.004-M-0002). Based on their geographic location, the specimens from the Uélé Provinces might possibly need to be re-assigned to R. eloquens , but even for that species, the Ibembo specimen was found too far to the west.

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Fig. 16. Distribution maps. A–B. Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Peters, 1878. C–D. Rhinolophus hilli Aellen, 1973. E–F. Rhinolophus kahuzi Fahr & Kerbis Peterhans, 2013. A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.