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Laephotis angolensis Monard 1935

  • 1. University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Functional Morphology, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein, 1, B- 2610 Antwerpen (Wilrijk), Belgium. & AfricanBats NPC, 357 Botha Ave, Kloofsig, 0157, Republic of South Africa.
  • 2. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. & Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • 3. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • 4. AfricanBats NPC, 357 Botha Ave, Kloofsig, 0157, Republic of South Africa. & Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X 20 Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, Republic of South Africa.
  • 5. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - OD Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, B- 2610 Antwerpen (Wilrijk), Belgium.

Description

Laephotis angolensis Monard, 1935

Fig. 42 A–B

Laephotis angolensis Monard, 1935: 45.

* Laephotis wintoni angolensis (Monard, 1935).

At the time Hayman et al. (1966) was written, the genus Laephotis was considered to be monotypic (Hill 1974: 1), with the nominate subspecies restricted to Kenya and L. w. angolensis occurring in Angola, Zambia, Botswana and the southern part of the DRC. However, based on cranial characteristics, Peterson (1971a: 888) found the two to be specifically different.

Laephotis angolensis was reported by Hayman et al. (1966: 50, map 67) with 13 specimens from two localities in Haut-Katanga, and no further localities have been added since. Of these 11 were found to represent L. botswanae (Kearney & Seamark 2005: 73). Extralimitally, the species is further known from Angola, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 92, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077

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References

  • Hayman R. W., Misonne X. & Verheyen W. N. 1966. The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi. Annalen van het Koninklijk Museum voor Midden Afrika, Zoologische Wetenschappen, Ser. 8, 154: 1 - 105.
  • Hill J. E. 1974 a. A review of Laephotis Thomas, 1901 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 27 (2): 73 - 82.
  • Peterson R. L. 1971 a. Notes on the African long-eared bats of the genus Laephotis (family Vespertilionidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 49 (6): 885 - 888. https: // doi. org / 10.1139 / z 71 - 133
  • Kearney T. C. & Seamark E. C. J. 2005. Morphometric analysis of cranial and external characters of Laephotis Thomas, 1901 (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from southern Africa. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 42: 71 - 87. Available from https: // journals. co. za / deliver / fulltext / nfi _ annalstm / 42 / 1 / nfi _ annalstm _ v 42 _ a 6. pdf? itemId = / content / nfi _ annalstm / 42 / 1 / EJC 83631 & mimeType = pdf & containerIt emId = content / journal / nfi _ annalstm [accessed 29 Nov. 2017].