Pipistrellus grandidieri (Dobson, 1876)

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 : 101-103

Pipistrellus grandidieri (Dobson, 1876)

Fig 46 C–D

Vesperugo (Vesperus) grandidieri Dobson, 1876: 500 .

* Eptesicus grandidieri (Dobson, 1876) .

Although Hayman et al. (1966: 46) report six “ Eptesicus grandidieri ” specimens from the DRC, none of these actually belong to that species, but rather to Neoromicia capensis . However, two additional specimens from Resha ( Burundi; SMF 57586 and 57587) were found to belong to grandidieri , so the species does occur in the CRB area.

Thorn et al. (2007) re-evaluated the known material of grandidieri and concluded that this form should be assigned to a separate subgenus ( Afropipistrellus ) within the genus Pipistrellus . Van Cakenberghe & Happold (2013c: 623) present an extremely patchy distribution range, which covers a number of isolated localities ranging from the Nigerian/Cameroonian border to southern Somalia, and southwards to central

Angola and southern Mozambique. Here, we extend the distribution to Guinea and Liberia in West Africa, where “ Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri ” was reported by Decher et al. (2016: 273).

Figures

Fig. 46. Distribution maps. A–B. Nycticeinops schlieffenii (Peters, 1860). C–D. Pipistrellus grandidieri (Dobson, 1876). E–F. Pipistrellus hesperidus (Temminck, 1840). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.