Chaerephon nigeriae Thomas, 1913

Amori, Giovanni, Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Decher, Jan, Assou, Delagnon, Gippoliti, Spartaco & Luiselli, Luca, 2016, Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 201-244 : 216-217

Chaerephon nigeriae Thomas, 1913 °

HISTORICAL LITERATURE, VOUCHERS AND REMARK. — Six specimens specimens were recorded by the African Mammal Project from Ezimé ( Robbins 1980), but Togo is not cited in the African Chiroptera Report ( ACR 2015) . It appears that the six specimens have now been re-identified as Mops thersites (Thomas, 1903) in the NMNH database.

Chaerephon pumilus (Cretzschmar, 1826) ▶

HISTORICAL LITERATURE AND VOUCHERS. — Seventy-four specimens, captured by the African Mammal Project at Ezimé, Gbatope, Pagala, Dapaong and Batope, are listed in the NMNH database and also mentioned by Robbins (1980) as Tadarida (Chaerephon) pumila . De Vree et al. (1969) mention 72 specimens from Ahoué-houé, Aledjo, Atakpamé and Nanergou.

Mops brachypterus (Peters, 1852) •

REMARK

This species was listed by Matschie (1893b). Although we did not locate any voucher in the available collections, this species was considered to be probably present in the country by Van Cakenberghe & Seamark (2015).

Mops condylurus (A. Smith, 1833) ▶

HISTORICAL LITERATURE AND VOUCHERS. — Sixty vouchers of this species from Gbatope, Padori and Pewa collected by the African Mammal Project are listed in the NMNH database and are also mentioned by Robbins (1980). De Vree et al. (1969) mention 54 specimens from Adina, Atakpamé, Evou and Ezimé as Tadarida (Mops) condylura .

Mops spurrelli (Dollman, 1911) ▶

HISTORICAL LITERATURE AND VOUCHERS. — Four specimens were recorded by De Vree et al. (1969) from Adina under the name Xiphonycteris spurrelli Dollman, 1911 .

Mops thersites (Thomas, 1903) ▶

HISTORICAL LITERATURE AND VOUCHERS. — Six specimens, captured by the African Mammal Project at Ezimé, are currently listed in the NMNH database, apparently re-identified from Tadarida (Chaerephon) nigeriae Thomas, 1913 ( Robbins 1980) .