Neoromicia brunnea

Abstract

<i>Neoromicia brunnea</i> (Thomas, 1880) <p>Fig. 43 C–D</p> <p> <i>Vesperugo (Vesperus) brunneus</i> Thomas, 1880: 165.</p> <p>One specimen belonging to this species was collected at Lukolela (Mai-Ndombe Province, northwestern DRC). Fahr (2013p: 613) indicates that this species has a West African distribution, covering an area along the coast of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, and individual localities in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. ACR (2016: 1237), furthermore, mentions specimens from Congo, Gabon and Nigeria. The Lukolela specimen is the easternmost record of this species.</p>Published as part of <i>Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382)</i> on page 94, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3860077">http://zenodo.org/record/3860077</a&gt