Chaerephon ansorgei

Chaerephon ansorgei (Thomas, 1913)

Fig. 24 A–B

Nyctinomus ansorgei Thomas, 1919: 318.

* Tadarida (Tadarida) ansorgei (Thomas, 1913).

Hayman et al. (1966: 67, map 108) reported ansorgei from a number of localities in the eastern part of the DRC: the Garamba National Park and Faradje (Haut-Uélé Province) and from Jadotville (=Likasi) and Mwadingusha (Haut Katanga Province). The specimen from Vitshumbi (RMCA 17076) was reidentified by R.L. Peterson as belonging to Chaerephon bivittatus. Additional material was collected in Rwanda (Gabiro and Rukara) and in the DRC near Lake Kivu (Sud-Kivu Province) and in the Kikwit area (Kwilu Province). The latter is a major extention to the west of the DRC, but was overlooked by Cotterrill (2013b: 496). His map shows a scattered sub-Saharan distribution, composed of two larger areas: central Ethiopia and southwestern Zimbabwe, a few smaller areas in northeastern DRC, northeastern Zimbabwe, southwestern Kenya and the southern border between Nigeria and Cameroon, and some individual localities in eastern Côte d’Ivoire, northern Cameroon, northern Central African Republic, southern South Sudan, southwestern Tanzania, southeastern DRC, Zimbabwe and northern Angola. The SDM map suggests a potentially wider distribution in southern Africa, reaching further southwards in Angola towards northern Namibia.