Hipposideridae, Lydekker, 1891

Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2), pp. 371-391 : 379

Hipposideridae

There is some confusion as to how many species exist within the Hipposideros caffer-ruber complex; recently, Vallo et al. (2008) demonstrated seven lineages based on cytochrome b sequences. Of these, the A1 and B2 lineages could be geographically associated with the names of caffer (A1 lineage extending from South Africa to central Mozambique including the type locality Durban, South Africa) and ruber (B2 extending from Malawi to Kenya and Tanzania including the type locality Dar es Salaam), respectively. It is thus highly likely that the names caffer and ruber as used here are correctly applied, with the former occurring widely in Mozambique and the latter restricted to northern Mozambique (no records from northern Mozambique were included in Vallo et al., 2008).