Scotophilus leucogaster

(Cretzschmar, 1830)

White-bellied Yellow Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Vespertilioninae
Tribe : Scotophilini
Genus : Scotophilus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Cretzschmar, P.J. 1830. [Heft 18, pl. 27-28]. Pp. 69–73 in Cretzschmar, P.J. 1826-1831. Säugethiere. Pp. 1–78 in Rüppell, E. Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika. Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 78+55+24+47+141 pp.

Original name as described

Nycticejus leucogaster

Other common names

Cretzschmar's Brown Bat · Lesser Yellow House Bat · White-bellied House Bat

Type material

SMF:MAMM:4309

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

Brunnen Nedger (= Nedger Wel or Bir Nedger), Kordofan Province, Sudan.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Mauritania · Mali · Senegal · Guinea? · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Sierra Leone · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Niger · Nigeria · Cameroon · Chad · Central African Republic · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Sudan · South Sudan · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Uganda · Kenya · Burundi · Tanzania · Angola · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Namibia · Zimbabwe · Botswana · South Africa

Taxonomy notes

previously included S. altilits

Taxonomy notes citation

Vallo, P., Reeder, D. M., Vodzak, M. E., & Benda, P. (2019). Resurrection of an East African house bat species Scotophilus altilis Allen, 1914 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Zootaxa, 4577(1), 148-160.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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