Rhinolophus alcyone Temminck, 1852

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 : 34

Rhinolophus alcyone Temminck, 1852

Fig. 14 C–D

Rhinolophus alcyone Temminck, 1852: 80 .

* Rhinolophus alcyone alcyone Temminck, 1852 .

Hayman et al. (1966: 38, map 37) only report two specimens belonging to this species, one from Buluku and one from the upper Makpe River, both in the Garamba National Park, Haut-Uélé Province. Two additional specimens are from Lukolela (Mai-Ndombe Province, on the border with the Republic of Congo) and Scierie Forest (Maniema Province). Although specimens were reported from the Republic of Congo by Dowsett et al. (1991: 256), these were from the coastal province of Kioulou at quite some distance from Lukolela. Happold (2013e: 311) mentions that this species primarily occurs in the lowland rainforests, but also in dense relict and riverine forests north of the rainforest.

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Fig. 14. Distribution maps. A–B. Lavia frons (E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1810). C–D. Rhinolophus alcyone Temminck, 1852. E–F. Rhinolophus blasii Peters, 1867. A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.