The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera) Author Cakenberghe, Victor Van 9A0E1AF5-C248-4648-9D64-443112890346 University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Functional Morphology, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein, 1, B- 2610 Antwerpen (Wilrijk), Belgium. & AfricanBats NPC, 357 Botha Ave, Kloofsig, 0157, Republic of South Africa. & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 9 A 0 E 1 AF 5 - C 248 - 4648 - 9 D 64 - 443112890346 & Corresponding author: Victor. VanCakenberghe @ uantwerpen. be akenberghe@uantwerpen.be Author Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu 2AE2F96F-A138-419B-B650-6DB44D535D14&4C40421C-1D84-4BD1-A444-360300ECBEEC Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. & Email: gembuguycrispin @ gmail. com & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 2 AE 2 F 96 F-A 138 - 419 B-B 650 - 6 DB 44 D 535 D 14 & Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. & Email: prescottmusaba @ yahoo. fr & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 4 C 40421 C- 1 D 84 - 4 BD 1 - A 444 - 360300 ECBEEC gembuguycrispin@gmail.com&prescottmusaba@yahoo.fr Author Akawa, Prescott Musaba Author Seamark, Ernest B60CA9A1-D288-468E-AEEB-D0F136E96F5B AfricanBats NPC, 357 Botha Ave, Kloofsig, 0157, Republic of South Africa. & Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X 20 Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, Republic of South Africa. & Email: ernest. seamark @ africanbats. org & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: B 60 CA 9 A 1 - D 288 - 468 E-AEEB-D 0 F 136 E 96 F 5 B ernest.seamark@africanbats.org Author Verheyen, Erik 86B40463-E3D9-4147-9ED3-D7302E0D64B6 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - OD Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, B- 2610 Antwerpen (Wilrijk), Belgium. & Email: erik. verheyen @ naturalsciences. be & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 86 B 40463 - E 3 D 9 - 4147 - 9 ED 3 - D 7302 E 0 D 64 B 6 erik.verheyen@naturalsciences.be text European Journal of Taxonomy 2017 2017-12-18 382 1 327 journal article 21810 10.5852/ejt.2017.382 ea406606-dfbd-4121-9d8c-108041a032b4 2118-9773 3860077 FA508A12-9BDB-4A2B-9B0C-98FDD161443C Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833) Fig. 36 E–F Vespertilio Dinganii A. Smith, 1833: 59 . * Scotophilus nigrita (Schreber, 1775) : 58 . * Scotophilus nigrita herero Thomas, 1906: 174 . As indicated below, S. nigrita was erroneously used to identify the medium-sized African Scotophilus species. Robbins (1978: 212) showed that the correct name for this species should be S. dinganii . Hayman et al. (1966: 57 , map 83) reported “ S. nigrita ” from over almost the entire DRC and from northern Rwanda , with the exception of the northwestern part of the DRC and the most central part. Here, we include additional specimens from the northwestern, southwestern and southeastern parts of the country as well as from Rwanda and Burundi . This still leaves the central part of the DRC unoccupied by this species. The only central DRC record is a specimen from Boende (Tshuapa Province), but this is a juvenile specimen, which is probably too young to be identified with certainty. Furthermore, we removed a number of localities from the northeastern part of the DRC as the underlying specimens belonged to the next species. Happold (2013 am: 674) based her distribution map on data from Robbins et al. (1985: 63) , which resulted in a rather detailed map with a lot of finger-like extrusions and areas which almost touch one another. We believe that the species has a wider distribution, only lacking in eastern Somalia , southern Namibia and most of the RSA and probably also from the west and central African rainforest as mentioned by Happold. However, we need to point out that some of the east African records might need to be reassigned to a separate species, e.g., S. colias as was tentatively suggested by Vallo et al. (2011: 350) .