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<figureCitation box="[1893,1959,1614,1675]" captionStart="On" captionStartId="2.[178,220,4371,4398]" captionTargetBox="[101,3527,129,4721]" captionTargetPageId="1" captionText="On following pages: 4. Lander's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus landeri); 5. Guinean Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus guineensis); 6. Blasius's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus blasii); 7. Peters's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus lobatus); 8. Swinny's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus swinnyi); 9. Cape Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus capensis); 10. Gorongosa Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus gorongosae); 11. Roberts's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus rhodesiae); 12. Bushveld Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus simulato/); 13. Dent's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus denti); 14. Cameroon Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus alticolus); 15. Mehely's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus mehelyi); 16. Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus euryale); 17. Hildebrandt's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii); 18. Mount Mabu Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus mabuensis); 19. Cohen's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus cohenae); 20. Smithers's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus smithersi); 21. Mozambican Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus mossambicus); 22. Rüppell's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus fumigatus); 23. Eloquent Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus Bloquons)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3748527" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3748527/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">11</figureCitation>
. Robertss Horseshoe
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Roberts" authorityYear="1946" box="[2743,3313,1614,1675]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="285" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rhodesiae">
<emphasis box="[2743,3313,1614,1675]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Rhinolophus rhodesiae</emphasis>
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French: Rhinolophe de Rhodésie /
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Roberts-Hufeisennase /
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Herradura de
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Taxonomy.
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<emphasis box="[2950,3512,1788,1827]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Rhinolophus swinnyi rhodesiae</emphasis>
Roberts, 1946
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,
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Bezwe River, tributary of
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[=
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,
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[=
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is often included in
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,
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but recent genetic and morphometric analysis has determined that
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is a distinct species.
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is in the
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species group and seems to be closely related to
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,
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,
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and one specimen of
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from
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. There is considerable genetic and echolocation variation throughout its distribution.
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[1888,2165,2476,2515]" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Distribution. E</emphasis>
&amp; S Africa in E
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(including Unguja I in
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Archipelago), SW &amp; SE
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and E
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(N
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and S
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); possibly also
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,
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these records have
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to be confirmed and might
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Horseshoe Bat (
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A
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Descriptive
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Head—body
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.
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, tail
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, ear
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, hindfoot 8
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, forearm
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;
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4-5-8-
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. Robertss Horseshoe Bat is externally very similar to
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Horseshoe Bat. Pelage of Robertss Horseshoe
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is soft and fluffy, being pale gray to pale brown dorsally (hairs with pale cream bases) and paler ventrally,
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being off-white or cream. Dorsal pelage can also be bright orange in orange morph. Males lack axillary tufts. Ears are short (33—36% offorearm length). Noseleafhas subtriangular lancet, with concave sides and bluntly pointed tip;
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process is rounded; sella is naked, with slightly concave sides; narial lobes at base of sella are comparatively low; and horseshoe is narrow (width 6-2-8-
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) and does not cover entire muzzle, does
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have
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lateral leaflets, and has deeply notched median emargination. Robertss Horseshoe
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can be differentiated from
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Horseshoe
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by its less concave hastate lancet and less erect and low rounded connecting process. Lower lip has three grooves, with lateral grooves being
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indistinct.
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and uropatagium are brown. Robertss Horseshoe Bat has distinctly longer and tapered baculum than
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Horseshoe
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, with conspicuously broader base and shallow notch along lower part of shaft that is visible in lateral view. Skull is delicately built, with thin zygomatic arches; nasal swellings are rounded; frontal depression is very shallow and sometimes nearly flat; supraorbital ridges are weak; and sagittal crest is absent posteriorly and very low anteriorly, being
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developed. P2 is small
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in tooth row, C1 and P4 are well separated as a
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, and P is tiny and completely displaced labially, allowing P2 and P4 to touch or nearly touch one another.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[1889,2041,3797,3836]" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Habitat</emphasis>
Primarily savanna woodlands in lowland regions and montane and submontane rainforests at higher elevations. Robertss Horseshoe
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is found at
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.
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in the Udzungwa Mountains,
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, and c.
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on
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Mountain in
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, where it can also be found in the adjacent open canopy miombo woodlands ofNtchisi Forest Reserve.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[1889,2255,4061,4100]" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Food and Feeding.</emphasis>
Robertss Horseshoe
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probably forages by slow hawking and
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gleaning. During wet season in
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, stomach samples of 23 bats had moths (55% of volume), beetles (26%), termites (6%), and various other insects, including flies, midges, crickets, and bugs. During
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season, stomach samples
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nine bats included moths (56%), midges (43%), and flies (1%).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[1887,3511,2370,4629]" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">
Breeding. Lactating and heavily pregnant Robertss Horseshoe Bats were recorded in
<emphasis box="[1891,1983,4375,4414]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">early</emphasis>
November (
<emphasis box="[2220,2288,4375,4414]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">wet</emphasis>
season) in
<collectingCountry box="[2503,2639,4375,4414]" name="Malawi" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Malawi</collectingCountry>
, and a female had a single embryo in November in central
<collectingCountry box="[2158,2358,4431,4470]" name="Zimbabwe" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Zimbabwe</collectingCountry>
. Litter size is one.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[1888,2210,4484,4523]" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Activity patterns.</emphasis>
Robertss Horseshoe Bats are nocturnal.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[3020,3093,4484,4523]" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Day</emphasis>
roosts are
<emphasis bold="true" box="[3310,3427,4484,4523]" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">found</emphasis>
primarily in caves and old mine shafts where
<emphasis bold="true" box="[2697,2778,4537,4576]" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">they</emphasis>
hang from ceilings. Call shape is FM/ CF/FM, and peak F component is 99—102 kHz in Malashane Cave,
<collectingCountry box="[3247,3499,4590,4629]" name="Mozambique" pageId="6" pageNumber="285">Mozambique</collectingCountry>
, 102
<emphasis bold="true" box="[266,293,355,394]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286"></emphasis>
104 kHz in
<collectingCountry box="[515,647,355,394]" name="Malawi" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Malawi</collectingCountry>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[666,678,355,394]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">(</emphasis>
call durations of 37
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1056,1069,355,394]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">-</emphasis>
74 milliseconds
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1375,1396,355,394]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">),</emphasis>
100 kHz in Soutpansberg,
<collectingCountry box="[310,550,408,447]" name="South Africa" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">South Africa</collectingCountry>
, and 107
<emphasis bold="true" box="[723,750,408,447]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286"></emphasis>
112 kHz in
<collectingCountry box="[967,1164,408,447]" name="Zimbabwe" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Zimbabwe</collectingCountry>
, although the record from
<collectingCountry name="Zimbabwe" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Zimbabwe</collectingCountry>
might not represent Robertss Horseshoe Bat because it is so different from typical frequencies recorded in other regions.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[199,1820,355,1086]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,1142,569,608]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Movements, Home range and Social organization.</emphasis>
Roosts of Robertss Horseshoe Bats have been found with
<emphasis bold="true" box="[645,681,622,661]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">1-</emphasis>
5 individuals, roosting alone or in pairs. Some roosts have been recorded with over 100 individuals in
<emphasis box="[1007,1268,675,714]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">south-western</emphasis>
<collectingCountry box="[1278,1421,675,714]" name="Zambia" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Zambia</collectingCountry>
, southern
<collectingCountry box="[1620,1817,675,714]" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">DR Congo</collectingCountry>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[205,217,728,767]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">(</emphasis>
Katanga
<emphasis bold="true" box="[382,402,728,767]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">),</emphasis>
and Unguja Island. They have been recorded roosting with the Bushveld Horseshoe Bat
<emphasis bold="true" box="[494,506,782,821]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">(</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="K Andersen" authorityYear="1904" box="[506,741,782,821]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="286" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="simulator">R. simulator</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[741,753,782,821]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">)</emphasis>
in
<collectingCountry box="[820,1016,782,821]" name="Zimbabwe" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Zimbabwe</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="286" type="conservation">
<paragraph blockId="7.[199,1820,355,1086]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[200,676,835,874]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Status and Conservation.</emphasis>
<collectingRegion box="[689,763,835,874]" country="Cameroon" name="North" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Not</collectingRegion>
assessed on
<emphasis box="[1007,1071,835,874]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">The</emphasis>
IUCN
<emphasis box="[1195,1346,835,874]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">ed List.</emphasis>
Habitat loss seems to be the largest threat to Robertss Horseshoe Bat, although
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1261,1289,888,927]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">it</emphasis>
is widespread and
<emphasis box="[1651,1819,888,927]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">relatively</emphasis>
common throughout its distribution.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="286" type="reference_group">
<paragraph blockId="7.[199,1820,355,1086]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[201,409,1000,1027]" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Bibliography.</emphasis>
ACR (2018),
<emphasis box="[611,702,1000,1027]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Ansell</emphasis>
(1967, 1969),
<emphasis box="[918,1031,1000,1027]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Cotterill</emphasis>
(1996a, 2013e), Csorba et
<emphasis box="[1448,1479,1000,1027]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">al.</emphasis>
(2003), enton &amp;
<emphasis box="[1765,1817,1000,1027]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">Bell</emphasis>
(1981), Mutumi et al. (2016), Taylor, Macdonald et
<emphasis box="[934,965,1053,1080]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="286">al.</emphasis>
(2018), Whitaker &amp; Black (1976).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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