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<mods:namePart>Don E. Wilson</mods:namePart>
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<figureCitation box="[1402,1485,986,1036]" captionStart="Plate 72: Vespertilionidae" captionStartId="187.[130,160,3289,3314]" captionTargetBox="[13,2763,20,3661]" captionTargetPageId="186" captionText="420. Herman's Myotis (Myotis hermani), 421. Bartelss Myotis (Myotis bartelii), 422. Webers Myotis (Myotis weberi), 423. Orange-fingered Myotis (Myotis rufopictus), 424. Black-and-orange Myotis (Myotis formosus), 425. Geoftroys Myotis (Myotis emarginatus), 426. Temminck's. 3 Myotis (Myotis tricolor), 427. Welwitschs Myotis (Myotis welwitschii), 428. Reddish-black Myotis (Myotis rufoniger), 429. Scott's Myotis (Myotis scotti), 430. Morris's Myotis (Myotis morrisi), 431. Bocage Myotis (Myotis bocagii), 432. Malagasy Myotis (Myotis goudotii), 433. Anjouan Myotis (Myotis anjouanensis), 434. Kocks Myotis (Myotis dieteri), 435. Alcathoe Whiskered Myotis (Myotis alcathoe), 436. Hyrcanian Myotis (Myotis hyrcanicus), 437. Pond Myotis (Myotis dasycneme), 438. Ikonnikov ' s Myotis (Myotis tkonnikovi), 439. Sichuan Myous (Myotis altarium), 440. Common Whiskered Myotis (Myotis mystacinus), 441. Davids Myotis (Myotis davidii), 442. Valley Myotis (Myotis ancricola), 443. Anna Tesss Myotis (Myotis annatessae), 444. Gomantong Myotis (Myotis gomantongensis), 445. Peterss Myotis (Myotis ater), 446. Nepalese Whiskered Myotis (Myotis muricola), 447. Browns Whiskered Myotis (Myotis browni), 448. Insular Myotis (Myotis insularum)" figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6398946" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6398946/files/figure.png" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">427.</figureCitation>
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<vernacularName box="[1500,1883,986,1036]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Welwitschs Myotis</vernacularName>
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<heading box="[1936,2274,986,1036]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1866" box="[1936,2274,986,1036]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Myotis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="189" pageNumber="951" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="welwitschii">
<emphasis box="[1936,2274,986,1036]" italics="true" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Myotis welwitschii</emphasis>
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<heading box="[1402,2358,1055,1076]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1402,1478,1055,1076]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">French:</emphasis>
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/
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1707,1798,1055,1076]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">German:</emphasis>
<vernacularName box="[1804,2005,1055,1076]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Welwitsch-Mausohr</vernacularName>
/
<emphasis bold="true" box="[2025,2117,1055,1076]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Spanish:</emphasis>
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<heading box="[1401,2345,1095,1116]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1401,1649,1095,1116]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Other common names:</emphasis>
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,
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,
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[2013,2169,1167,1196]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Taxonomy.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1866" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Scotophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="189" pageNumber="951" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="welwitschii">Scotophilus welwitschii]. E. Gray, 1866</taxonomicName>
,
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<paragraph blockId="189.[2012,2606,1167,1591]" box="[2099,2231,1202,1235]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
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.”
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<paragraph blockId="189.[2012,2606,1167,1591]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
Subgenus Chrysopteron.
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and also M. rufoniger. Monotypic.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[2013,2189,1321,1354]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Distribution.</emphasis>
Patchily in sub-Saharan Africa, in SE
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, and from
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and
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through W
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,
<collectingCountry name="Rwanda" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Rwanda</collectingCountry>
,
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, S
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, and
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to N &amp; NE
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.
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<subSubSection pageId="189" pageNumber="951" type="description">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[2012,2291,1518,1551]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Descriptive notes.</emphasis>
Head-body c¢.57
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, tail
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, ear
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, hindfoot 9-
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, forearm
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; weight
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. Sexes similar. Pelage of Welwitschs
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is dense and woolly, without sheen; dorsally orange (hairs tricolored, cream with blackish-brown base and orange tip; mid-dorsal hairs
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); ventrally cream, slightly suffused with orange (hairs bicolored, blackish brown with cream tip). Wings strikingly particolored, with outer arm-wing and hand-wing black, bones outlined in orange, and inner arm-wing orange with small black spots. Wing membranes naked, attached to base offirst toe; interfemoral membrane orange with small black spots, ventral surface with sparse backward-pointing hairs, and posterior margin with sparse fringe of straight, bristle-like hairs between tips of calcars and tip of tail. Ears orange with small black spots and black edges, outer margin without notch, and of medium length; tragus long, bluntly pointed, measuring about one-half ear length. Tibia naked. Muzzle naked, orange with black spots. Skull large and robust (greatest length of skull 18-6-20-
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); profile of forehead moderately concave;sagittal crest low anteriorly, absent posteriorly. P* reduced, being partially or fully displaced lingually; P? and P* separated or in contact; I, and I, with four cusps, three well developed and the fourth low and inconspicuous. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 44 and FNa = 50 (
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), X = submetacentric, Y = submetacentric.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[1397,1508,2267,2300]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Habitat.</emphasis>
Typically in Afro-montane habitats at elevations over
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, including forest in much of East and Central Africa, and grassland nearforest in
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; up to
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in
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. Also at lower elevations, occurring in wetter and drier miombo woodland and riverine woodland at
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in
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; woodland savanna in south-central and southern Africa; and coastal forest surrounded by thornveld in KwaZulu-Natal.
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<paragraph blockId="189.[1393,2604,1596,3208]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1396,1657,2464,2497]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Food and Feeding.</emphasis>
Fecal pellets from one bat contained remains of small beetles; captive bats prefer softshelled insects. Recorded flying low over streams and a farm pool, which suggests that the species may forage by trawling over open water like Bocages
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(
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). Wing loading very low, aspect ratio low, flight fast or slow with great maneuverability; able to take off from ground.
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<paragraph blockId="189.[1393,2604,1596,3208]" box="[1395,1769,2664,2693]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1395,1530,2664,2693]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Breeding.</emphasis>
No information.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="189" pageNumber="951" type="activity">
<paragraph blockId="189.[1393,2604,1596,3208]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1393,1630,2701,2734]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Activity patterns.</emphasis>
Recorded calls of two individuals from Soutpansberg,
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, had the following parameters: maximum frequency 73-8 kHz, minimum frequency 33-8 kHz and 34 kHz,frequency of knee 52-9 kHz and 53 kHz, characteristic frequency 50 kHz and 50-3 kHz, slope 563 OPS, and duration 2-1 milliseconds.
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<paragraph blockId="189.[1393,2604,1596,3208]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1394,2099,2859,2892]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Movements, Home range and Social organization.</emphasis>
Welwitschs
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has been found roosting singly, but data are scarce. During the day, it has been seen hanging in bushes and trees, where well camouflaged by resemblance to dead leaves. In
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, one individual was found in furled leaf of banana plant, although there were no other record of banana leaves being used as day roost, despite almost two years of intensive search.
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<paragraph blockId="189.[1393,2604,1596,3208]" box="[1394,2444,3099,3128]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1394,1743,3099,3128]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Status and Conservation.</emphasis>
Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List.
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<paragraph blockId="189.[1393,2604,1596,3208]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1394,1547,3143,3168]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Bibliography.</emphasis>
ACR (2017), Ansell &amp; Dowsett (1988), Csorba, Chou Cheng-Han et al. (2014), Happold, M. (2013bm), Linden et al. (2014), Rautenbach et al. (1993), Ruedi &amp; Mayer (2001), Taylor, Sowler et al. (2013).
</paragraph>
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