Mops (Mops) condylurus (A. Smith, 1833)

Fig. 27 C–D

Nyctinomus Condylurus A. Smith, 1833: 54.

* Tadarida (Mops) condylura (A. Smith, 1833).

* Tadarida (Mops) condylura condylura (A. Smith, 1833).

Hayman et al. (1966: 64) indicated that many of the specimens they reported under this name could actually belong to one of the next species (M. niveiventer). The major part of the specimens they mention are from the eastern part of the DRC (provinces Haut-Uélé, Ituri, Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, Maniema, Haut- Lomami, Haut-Katanga) and Rwanda. Their two remaining localities were from more western areas: Lubondai-Tshimbulu (Kasaï-Central Province) and Léopoldville (Kinshasa City Province). We found additional specimens from localities in Rwanda and Burundi, the Sud-Kivu, Tanganyika and Kasaï- Central Provinces, and from further to the west (Kikwit, Kwilu Province). These localities were all in the general area already reported by Hayman et al. (1966). However, we also found two records from the northwestern part of the DRC (Duma and Tandala, both in Sud-Ubangi Province).

The map given by Happold (2013r: 505) shows a major distribution area in eastern Africa, ranging from southeastern Sudan, over South Sudan, eastern DRC, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, southern DRC, most of Angola, Zambia, Malawi, southern Mozambique to northeastern RSA. In Kenya, there is a small band along the border with Tanzania from Uganda to the coast, where it turns northwards to reach into Somalia. The absence of the species in almost entire Tanzania and northern Mozambique is rather strange, although a single locality is plotted on the coastal border between these two countries. In western Africa, there are three areas: one encompassing The Gambia, southern Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, a second in Sierra Leone, and a third covering eastern Côte d’Ivoire to central Nigeria. Happold (2013r) also marked a small area in Ethiopia. Our data (ACR 2016: 1153) suggest that M. condylurus might occur more extensively in Ethiopia, as well as in Tanzania and Mozambique, and also further to the north in West Africa. The distribution in southern DRC and Angola, however, might not be as extensive as proposed by Happold (2013r).