Mimetillus moloneyi (Thomas, 1891)

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 : 94

Mimetillus moloneyi (Thomas, 1891)

Fig. 42 E–F

Vesperugo (Vesperus) Moloneyi Thomas, 1891: 528 .

* Mimetillus moloneyi (Thomas, 1891) .

Hayman et al. (1966: 50, map 68) mention this species from a number of localities in the northwestern part of the DRC (Bas- and Haut-Uélé, Ituri, Tshopo Provinces), but also from the southwestern Landana (“Lower Congo”). This last locality, however, is in Cabinda ( Angola). The southern occurrence of M. moloneyi in the DRC is confirmed by records from Luluabourg (= Kananga) in Central Kasaï Province and Mosenge in Kwilu Province. These records were not included by Fahr (2013o: 587), who, therefore, plotted only a narrow band in the northern part of the DRC and individual localities in the border area between DRC, Uganda and Rwanda in the east, the border between the DRC and Zambia in the south and in Cabinda and the mouth of the Congo River in the west. He also stated that it is conspicuously absent from most of the central Congo Basin. Our additional records, however, suggest that it might be present in the fringes of the rain forest and other forest types and savannas reaching to the Kenyan and Tanzanian coast in the east and Sierra Leone and Guinea in the west.

Figures

Fig. 42. Distribution maps. A–B. Laephotis angolensis Monard, 1935. C–D. Laephotis botswanae Setzer, 1971. E–F. Mimetillus moloneyi (Thomas, 1891). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.