Hypsugo musciculus (Thomas, 1913)

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 : 92

Hypsugo musciculus (Thomas, 1913)

Fig. 41 E–F

* Pipistrellus musciculus Thomas, 1913: 316 .

Similar to H. crassulus , H. musciculus has been assigned to various supra-specific units: Pipistrellus , P. ( Hypsugo ), “ Attalepharca ” and Hypsugo (see Van Cakenberghe & Happold 2013e: 637). Here, we follow Simmons (2005: 491) in assigning it to the genus Hypsugo .

Hayman et al. (1966: map 74) have two localities plotted on their map: Bokuma in Equateur Province and Avakubi in Tshopo Province. For the latter, however, they refer (p. 53) to Koopman (1965: 13) who indicated that this specimen agreed better with the original description of P. nanulus than with that of P. musciculus . In the Paris museum, there is one other DRC specimen (from Bata, Kwilu Province) that had been identified as musciculus .

Hypsugo musciculus is primarily a West African species occurring from Sierra Leone in the west to Cameroon and Gabon in the east, with a few records extending into the DRC.

Figures

Fig. 41. Distribution maps. A–B. Hypsugo crassulus (Thomas, 1904). C–D. Hypsugo cf. eisentrauti (Hill, 1968). E–F. Hypsugo musciculus (Thomas, 1913). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.