Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid Author Decher, Jan Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany & Corresponding author: E-mail: J. Decher @ zfmk. de echer@zfmk.de Author Hoffmann, Anke Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany Author Schaer, Juliane Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany & Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Chariteplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany Author N Orris, Ryan W. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, 4240 Campus Dr., Lima, OH 45804, USA Author Kadjo, Blaise Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22, Côte d’Ivoire Author Astrin, Jonas Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany Author Monadjem, Ara All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland & Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag 20, Hatfield 0028, Pretoria, South Africa Author Hutterer, Rainer Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany text Acta Chiropterologica 2015 2015-12-01 17 2 255 282 journal article 21466 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003 470b137b-05b5-468a-b37e-6a315108ecc1 1733-5329 3943621 Hipposideros fuliginosus (Temminck, 1853) New material ZFMK 2008.0284, ♀ , W1, 3 March 2008. Only one female was caught in the ravine forest at W1. However, during the 2002 RAP, this was the most abundant species caught with 99 individuals at the high elevation site (W2) and 17 individuals at the low elevation site (BK) (Fahr and Ebigbo, 2004). During the 2003 RAP this species was not recorded from the potential offset sites at Simandou ( Fahr et al. , 2006 ). In Liberia H. fuliginosus was recorded from North Lorma National Forest and characterized as a “rarely recorded and forest-dependent species” (Monadjem and Fahr, 2007: 54). Its habitat extends along riverine forest belts into drier mosaic habitats both altitudinally and latitudinally: it lives in small colonies in hollow trees, sometimes associated with H. cf. ruber ( Fahr, 2013 a ) . The female caught on 3 March 2008 carried an embryo of 22 mm crown-rump length. Conservation status: Least Concern. Population trend is decreasing. A major threat is habitat loss, as this species does not seem to occur in degraded forest ( IUCN, 2015 ). The species is known from about 25 disjunct localities between Sierra Leone and western Uganda ( Fahr, 2013 a ). Given the numbers recorded during the 2002 RAP, the Simandou Range is an important stronghold for this species.