Neoromicia capensis (A. Smith 1829)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 493

Neoromicia capensis (A. Smith 1829)

[Vespertilio] capensis A. Smith 1829 , Zool. J., 4: 435.

Type Locality: South Africa, Eastern Cape Prov., Grahamstown.

Vernacular Names: Cape Serotine.

Synonyms: Neoromicia minuta Temminck 1840 .

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Neoromicia capensis subsp. capensis A. Smith 1829

Subspecies Neoromicia capensis subsp. damarensis Noack 1889

Subspecies Neoromicia capensis subsp. garambae J. A. Allen 1917

Subspecies Neoromicia capensis subsp. gracilior Thomas and Schwann 1905

Subspecies Neoromicia capensis subsp. grandidieri Dobson 1876

Subspecies Neoromicia capensis subsp. nkatiensis Roberts 1932

Subspecies Neoromicia capensis subsp. notius G. M. Allen 1908

Distribution: Guinea-Bissau to Ethiopia, south to South Africa.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc) as Eptesicus capensis .

Discussion: Includes notius; see Koopman (1975 b). Does not include matroka ; see Peterson et al. (1995). May also include minuta Temminck, 1840 [not of Montgu, 1808; see Koopman, 1975 b]. Probably includes melckorum Roberts, 1919 , but not all of the material referred to that species (see account for melckorum below). Most West African populations have not been allocated to subspecies. See Taylor (2000 a) for distribution map, but note that he apparently included matroka from Madagascar (here treated as a species of Eptesicus ) in capensis .