Asellia tridens (E. Geoffroy, 1813)

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), European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382), pp. 1-327 : 26

Asellia tridens (E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1813)

Fig. 10 C–D

Rhinolophus tridens E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1813: 260 .

Aulagnier (2013: 362) indicates that Asellia tridens is a desert species that occurs in the Sahara and Sahel savanna areas of northern Africa, which is quite some distance from the Kivu area in the DRC, where the 18 specimens reported here have been collected. However, the Paris museum also has a specimen from Zanzibar, which suggests that the species might occur more to the south than generally accepted.

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Fig. 10. Distribution maps. A–B. Stenonycteris lanosus Thomas, 1906. C–D. Asellia tridens (E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1813). E–F. Doryrhina cyclops (Temminck, 1853). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.