Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar 1826)

Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2), pp. 371-391 : 385

Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar 1826)

A single individual was collected from mopane woodland near the Kruger National Park boundary in southern Mozambique. This constitutes the first recent record of this species for the country. Four specimens assigned to this species are mentioned in Van Cakenberghe and Seamark (2008), but these are based on old specimens that may refer to S. cf. viridis which is applied here as the available name for the smallest, yellow-bellied Scotophilus species in Southern Africa (see Scotophilus cf. viridis below). These four specimens require reexamination to establish exactly which species they refer to.

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 48.3 (1); Bm (adult male) 23.0 (1).