Triaenops afer Peters 1877

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 : 381

Triaenops afer Peters 1877

Benda and Vallo (2009) restrict T. persicus Dobson 1871 within the Middle East, so we classify this African species as T. afer Peters 1877 . This species was recorded at eight sites in southern, central and northern Mozambique. Fifteen individuals were captured at the entrance to a cave system in the Cheringoma plateau suggesting that a large roosting colony occurs there. Another large colony occurs just south of the Save River. However, the core of its Southern African distribution is central and northern Mozambique, with marginal intrusion into Zambia and Zimbabwe and south of the Save River. Echolocation calls are sexually dimorphic: peak echolocation frequencies of males ranged between 71–75 kHz (n = 7) and those of females between 82–85 kHz (ANABAT, n = 11). In Malawi, males called at 72–75 kHz and females at 80–85 kHz (D. C. D. Happold and M. Happold, unpublished, cited in Taylor et al., 2005).

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 54.1 ± 1.18 (51.7–55.8, 16); Bm (adult male) 12.1 ± 1.00 (10.0– 13.0, 11); FA (adult female) 52.4 ± 1.34 (49.8–55.2, 16); Bm (adult female) 10.8 ± 1.42 (8.0–12.5, 9).