Lavia Gray, 1838. Mag. Zool. Bot. 2: 490
Megaderma frons E. Geoffroy, 1810
Livia Agassiz, 1846 [lapsus].
References:
Gray, J.E. 1838. A revision of the genera of bats (Vespertilionidae) and the description of some new genera and species. Magazine of Zoology and Botany 2: 483-505. Read article.
Lavia frons (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810).
Ann. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris 15: 192.
Yellow-winged Bat
Megaderma frons
frons É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810:
affinis K. Andersen & Wroughton, 1907;
megalotis Bechstein, 1800 [nomen oblitum];
rex Miller, 1905.
Senegal
Senegal and Gambia to Somalia, south to Namibia, Zambia, and Malawi; Zanzibar
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2017).
References:
ACR 2018. African Chiroptera Report 2018. AfricanBats NPC, Praetoria: i-xvi + 1-8028 pp. Read report.
Grubb, P. 2004. Controversial scientific names of African mammals. African Zoology 39(1): 91-109. Read abstract.
Happold, M. 2013. Cardioderma cor. Pages 404-406 In J. Kingdon, D. Happold, T. Butynski, M. Hoffmann, M. Happold, J. Kalina (eds.) Mammals of Africa, vol. IV: hedgehogs, shrews and bats. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. Not available online.
Happold, M. 2013. Lavia frons. Pages 406-408 In J. Kingdon, D. Happold, T. Butynski, M. Hoffmann, M. Happold, J. Kalina (eds.) Mammals of Africa, vol. IV: hedgehogs, shrews and bats. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. Not available online.
Koopman, K.F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics. Handbuch der Zoologie, vol. VIII, Mammalia, Part 60. de Gruyter, Berlin: 224 pp. Not available online.
Simmons, N.B. 2005. Chiroptera. Pages 312-529 In D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds.) Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd edition, Volume 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Read chapter.
Vonhof, M.J., and M.C. Kalcounis. 1999. Lavia frons. Mammalian Species 614: 1-4. Read abstract.
See Vonhof and Kalcounis (1999), Happold (2013), and ACR (2018). For discussion of the name megalotis, see Grubb (2004). Koopman (1994) and Simmons (2005) recognized three subspecies: frons, affinis, and rex, however, the validity of these subspecies has not been established (Happold, 2013) and we do not recognize them here.