Doryrhina cyclops (Temminck, 1853)

(Fig. 13, Table 3)

Phyllorrhina cyclops Temminck, 1853: 75 .

COMMON NAME. — Cyclops Leaf-nosed Bat. French: Phyllorine des Cyclopes.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 34 specimens (including original data).

Mount Cameroon area • 12 specimens; Mubenge - Isongo; 4°05’00”N, 9°00’00”E; 0 m; 3.III.1938; Martin Eisentraut leg.; SMNS 3451, 3452, 5597 to 5599, ZMB 54912 to 54915, 93802 to 93804 • 3♀♀, 2 ♂♂; Malende Swamp area; 4°21’00”N, 9°26’00”E; 50 m; 9.III-10.III.1957; Martin Eisentraut leg.; SMNS 6582, 6583, 8163, 8164 • 1 specimen; Malende; 4°21’00”N, 9°26’00”E; 150 m; 10.II.1957; Martin Eisentraut leg.; ZFMK 1961.0639 • 1 ♂; Mueli; 4°23’00”N, 9°07’00”E; 600 m; 8.XII.1958; Martin Eisentraut leg.; ZFMK 1961.0640 .

Other localities of Cameroon • 1 specimen; Mount Kupe; 4°48’05”N, 9°42’29”E. 1078 m; 2.XII.1966; Martin Eisentraut leg.; ZFMK 1969.0463 • 9 specimens; Bipindi; 3°05’00”N, 10°25’00”E; 184 m; Zenker Georg August leg.; ZMB 67752 to 67769, T10541 .

ORIGINAL DATA. — Only a single specimen of Doryrhina cyclops was captured during our field surveys, which was mist-netted over a waterhole in an undisturbed lowland rainforest of Mount Cameroon at an altitude of 630 m a.s.l. (Table 1) Fedden & MacLeod (1986) captured this species only in primary forests on Mount Cameroon, while Eisentraut (1963) captured it only at the lowland rainforest of Mount Cameroon.

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widely distributed in West and Central Africa, with a few isolated records from East Africa. This species principally inhabits undisturbed tropical rainforest (Happold 1987), including lowland, coastal, montane, swamp and mangrove forests (Fahr 2013c as Hipposideros cyclops). It has also been recorded in isolated forest patches on the edges of savannah (Decher & Fahr 2005) where it roosts singly, in pairs or in small groups in cavities of hollow standing trees. They have a preference for cavities located high above the ground, and often return to the roost to consume their prey (Happold 1987). Decher & Fahr (2005) mentioned that this species may be threatened by deforestation in some parts of it range.

REMARK. — We use the generic name Doryrhina based on the revision by Foley et al. (2017).