Glauconycteris egeria Thomas, 1913

Mongombe, Aaron Manga, Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo & Tamesse, Joseph Lebel, 2020, Annotated checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Mount Cameroon, southwestern Cameroon, Zoosystema 42 (24), pp. 483-514 : 507

Glauconycteris egeria Thomas, 1913

( Table 3 )

Glauconycteris egeria Thomas, 1913: 144 .

COMMON NAMES. — English: Bibundi Bufferfly Bat. French: Glauconyctère de Bibundi.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 specimen ( Table 1 ).

ORIGINAL DATA. — A single female individual was captured in a grassland patch at the submontane forest, at an altitude of 1590 m a.s.l. This represented the first record of this species in the Mount Cameroon area. We did not examine any museum specimen attributed to this species.

DIAGNOSIS. — The species is a small microbat with a forearm length of 38.5 mm, and head body length of 43.8 mm ( Table 3 ). The dorsal pelage is dark with conspicuous whitish flank-stripe, ears with pale rim. The external and skull measurements are similar to those given by Happold (2013k) ( Table 3 , 4 ).

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species had previously been recorded in Cameroon, Central African Republic and western Uganda ( Thomas 1913; Hassanin et al. 2018). According to Happold (2013k), this species is endemic to Africa where it inhabits the rainforest.