Glauconycteris argentata Dobson 1875

Glauconycteris argentata Dobson 1875, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875: 385.

Type Locality: Cameroon, Western Province, Mt. Cameroon.

Vernacular Names: Common Butterfly Bat.

Distribution: Cameroon to Kenya, south to Angola, Tanzania, and N Malawi.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc) as Chalinolobus argentatus .

Discussion: See Peterson and Smith (1973) and Peterson (1982).