Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas, 1904

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 : 103

Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas, 1904

Fig. 47 A–B

* Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas, 1904: 198 .

Hayman et al. (1966: map 75) plotted one specimen from Avakubi, which is actually the same specimen they plotted as “ Pipistrellus musciculus ” (see above). One additional record is from from Mosenge in Kwilu Province.

The map given by Van Cakenberghe & Happold (2013f: 639) shows that P. nanulus primarily occurs in the savannas of Sudan and Guinea, the northern rainforest-savanna mosaic in West Africa (from Guinea to Togo and from southern Nigeria to Gabon, and from north-central Benin to central Nigeria) and in the eastern rainforest-savanna mosaic in northeastern DRC, Uganda and western Kenya. Based on additional material mentioned in ACR (2016: 1276), our distribution map covers a more continuous area from Senegal to western Kenya, with a small gap at the Dahomey Gap in western Africa. The map also shows that it could occur over almost the entire northern half of the DRC, with the exception of the central part.

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Fig. 47. Distribution maps. A–B. Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas, 1904. C–D. Pipistrellus rueppellii (Fischer, 1826). E–F. Scotoecus albofuscus (Thomas, 1890). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.