Neoromicia brunnea (Thomas, 1880)

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 : 94

Neoromicia brunnea (Thomas, 1880)

Fig. 43 C–D

Vesperugo (Vesperus) brunneus Thomas, 1880: 165 .

One specimen belonging to this species was collected at Lukolela (Mai-Ndombe Province, northwestern DRC). Fahr (2013p: 613) indicates that this species has a West African distribution, covering an area along the coast of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, and individual localities in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. ACR (2016: 1237), furthermore, mentions specimens from Congo, Gabon and Nigeria. The Lukolela specimen is the easternmost record of this species.

Figures

Fig. 43. Distribution maps. A–B. Mimetillus thomasi Hinton, 1920. C–D. Neoromicia brunnea (Thomas, 1880). E–F. Neoromicia capensis (A. Smith, 1829). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan- African distribution.