Mimetillus Thomas, 1904. Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1904(10): 12.
Vesperugo (Vesperus) moloneyi Thomas, 1891
Mimetillus moloneyi (Thomas, 1891).
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, 7: 528.
Moloney's Mimic Bat
Vesperugo (Vesperus) moloneyi
berneri Monard, 1933
.moloneyi Thomas, 1891
.thomasi Hinton, 1920
.Nigeria, Western Region, Lagos
Sierra Leone east to Ethiopia and Kenya, Tanzania south to Mozambique, west to Zambia, S Dem. Rep. Congo, and Angola; no records have been documented in the central Congo Basin
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2017).
References:
Cotterill, F.P.D. 2001. The first specimen of Thomas's flat-headed bat, Mimetillus moloneyi thomasi (Microchiroptera: Mammalia) in southern Africa from Mozambique. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10: 211-218. .
Fahr, J. 2013. Mimetillus moloney. Pages 586-588 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.
Thomas, O. 1891. Descriptions of three new bats in the British Museum Collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 6, 7(47): 527-530. Read article.
Cotterill (2001) suggested that thomasi represents a distinct, large-bodied, savanna-dwelling species (moloneyi being a strict forest-dwelling species characterized by smaller size). However, additional locality and morphometric data indicate a more complex pattern (Fahr, 2013). Accordingly, we have chosen to treat these taxa as conspecific pending a thorough revision. Subspecies follow Fahr (2013).