Kerivoula lanosa (A. Smith, 1847)

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 : 76

Kerivoula lanosa (A. Smith, 1847)

Fig. 34 E–F

Vespertilio lanosus A. Smith, 1847 : pl. 50 and text.

* Kerivoula harrisoni muscilla (Thomas, 1906) : 294.

* Kerivoula harrisoni lucia (Hinton, 1920) : 240.

Rosevear (1965: 307–308) doubted the validity of the characters separating harrisoni from lanosa , i.e., the number of cusps of the upper incisors (two in harrisoni and one in the other species) and the length of the rostrum (comparing c-m 3 with m 3 -m 3, the first being greater than the second in harrisoni and smaller in the other species). This was further investigated by Hill (1977: 628), who considered harrisoni to be a subspecies of lanosa .

Hayman et al. (1966: 58, map 86) mention three specimens from the eastern part of the DRC: one from Pawa (Haut-Uélé Province) [considered to belong to K. harrisoni bellula Aellen, 1959 by Aellen 1959: 225], one from Lukulu (Tanganyika Province) and one from Funda Biabo (Lualaba Province). One additional specimen was collected along the road between Kamituga and Kampene in Sud-Kivu Province. The SDM map confirms the distribution suggested by Cotterill (2013j: 730), who mentions it is known from widespread, scattered records in the rain forest, the northern rain forest-savanna mosaic, Somalia-Masai bushland, coastal forest mosaic, Zambezian woodland, Afromontane-Afroalpine and south-west Cape biotic zones, but we suggest it might occur further to the west in northern Namibia and south-central to coastal Angola.

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Fig. 34. Distribution maps. A–B. Kerivoula argentata Tomes, 1861. C–D. Kerivoula cuprosa Thomas, 1912. E–F. Kerivoula lanosa (A. Smith, 1847). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan- African distribution.