Mops (Xiphonycteris) nanulus J.A. Allen, 1917

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 : 66

Mops (Xiphonycteris) nanulus J.A. Allen, 1917

Fig. 30 A–B

Mops (Allomops) nanulus J.A. Allen, 1917: 477 .

* Tadarida (Mops) nanula (J.A. Allen, 1917) .

This species was reported by Hayman et al. (1966: 66, map 104) from nine localities in the northeastern, southeastern and southwestern parts of the DRC. The specimens from Butembo (Nord-Kivu Province) were re-identified by Frits De Vree as belonging to M. (X.) spurrelli . Additional specimens were reported from the Kikwit area (Kwilu Province), Lulimbi (Nord-Kivu Province), the Isa River (Ituri Province), and Aba (Haut-Uélé Province). All of these are in the same general area. However, M. (X.) nanulus was also collected at Yalosemba (Mongala Province) and Tandala (Sud-Ubangi Province) in the northwestern part of the DRC. These two latter localities were not included on the map presented by Happold (2013t: 521). Her map shows a patchy distribution, with two major areas in the DRC: one in the southwestern part of the country and a second reaching from western South Sudan over northeastern DRC through Uganda to western Kenya. Furthermore, there are smaller areas in the border area of southern Nigeria and Cameroon, southern Ghana and Sierra Leone, as well as individual localities along the border of Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire and between Benin and Nigeria, in Cameroon, and western Ethiopia. Our Pan-African distribution map suggests that the species can occur from Sierra Leone to Togo and from southern Nigeria over Cameroon, northern Congo, southern Central African Republic, northern DRC, southern South Sudan and Uganda to western Kenya, and as well as from Cameroon, eastern Gabon, central Congo into southwestern and southcentral DRC.

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Fig. 30. Distribution maps. A–B. Mops (Xiphonycteris) nanulus J.A. Allen, 1917. C–D. Mops (Xiphonycteris) spurrelli (Dollman, 1911). E–F. Mops (Xiphonycteris) thersites (Thomas, 1903). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.