Nyctinomus martiensseni, (Matschie, 1897)

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 : 70

Otomops martiensseni (Matschie, 1897)

Fig. 31 E–F

Nyctinomus martiensseni Matschie, 1897: 84 .

* Otomops martiensseni (Matschie, 1897) .

Otomops martiensseni was reported by Hayman et al. (1966:68,map 112) from three localities in the eastern part of the DRC (Poko in Bas-Uélé Province, the Garamba National Park in Haut-Uélé Province and the Upemba National Park in Haut-Lomami Province) and from one locality in Rwanda (Kigali). Additional specimens were collected in Burundi (Rwegura and the Kibira National Park) and in southeastern DRC (Marungu, Tanganyika Province). Yalden & Happold (2013: 481) indicate that the distribution of this species in Africa is wide, but disjunct, with records from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana in West Africa, the Central African Republic, DRC, Uganda, Rwanda and Angola in Central Africa, the RSA, Zimbabwe and Malawi in southern Africa, and a range along the border between Tanzania and Kenya, reaching to the border with Uganda. They also mark a few small areas in Ethiopia and Djibouti. However, the specimens from Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea and Kenya have been found to represent a recently described species, Otomops harrisoni Ralph, Richards, Taylor, Napier & Lamb, 2015 . Ralph et al. (2015: 27) also indicate that the range of their new species might include additional localities in Uganda, and their MapEnt map on page 17 suggests that this species also has a high probability of occurring in the CRB area.

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Fig. 31. Distribution maps. A–B. Myopterus daubentonii Desmarest, 1820. C–D. Myopterus whitleyi (Scharff, 1900). E–F. Otomops martiensseni (Matschie, 1897). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.