Nycticeinops Hill & Harrison, 1987. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. 52: 254.
Nycticeius schlieffeni Peters, 1859
Nycticeinops bellieri (De Vree, 1972).
Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 85: 412.
Bellier's Pipistrelle
Pipistrellus eisentrauti bellieri
Côte d’Ivoire, Adiopodoumé
Guinea, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Not Evaluated (raised from synonymy).
References:
De Vree, F. 1972. Description of a new form of Pipistrellus from Ivory Coast. Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Afri caine 85: 412-416. Not available online.
Fahr, J. 2013. Pipistrellus crassulus. Pages 617-619 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.
Hutterer, R., J. Decher, A. Monadjem, and J. Astrin. 2019. A new genus and species of Vesper bat from West Africa, with notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus. Acta Chiropterologica 21(1): 1-22. Read abstract.
Monadjem, A.L., R. Richards, and C. Denys. 2016. African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity. Acta Chiropterologica 18: 359-375. Read abstract.
Nycticeinops crassulus (Thomas, 1904).
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, 13: 206.
Broad-headed Pipistrelle
Pipistrellus crassulus
Cameroon, Efulen
Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Angola
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern as Pipistrellus crassulus (2017).
Does not includes bellieri; see Hutterer et al (2019), but see Heller et al. (1994).
References:
Heller, K.-G., M. Volleth, and D. Kock. 1994. Notes on some vespertilionid bats from the Kivu region, Central Africa. Senckenbergiana Biologica 74: 1-8. Not available online.
Hutterer, R., J. Decher, A. Monadjem, and J. Astrin. 2019. A new genus and species of Vesper bat from West Africa, with notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus. Acta Chiropterologica 21(1): 1-22. Read abstract.
Thomas, O. 1904. New bats from British East Africa collected by Mrs. Hinde, and from the Cameroons by Mr. G. L. Bates. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7, 13(75): 206-210. Read article.
Nycticeinops eisentrauti (Hill, 1968).
Bonn. Zool. Beitr. 19: 45.
Eisentraut's Pipistrelle
Pipistrellus eisentrauti
Cameroon, Western Province, Rumpi Highlands, Dikume-Balue
Cameroon
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Data Deficient as Hypsugo eisentrauti (2019).
Previously considered a species of Hypsugo, but transferred to Nycticeinops by Hoofer and Van Den Bussche (2003; see also Amador et al., 2016, and see discussion of sequences used in these papers by Hutterer et al., 2019). Transferred to Parahypsugo by Hutterer et al. (2019). Formerly included bellieri (e.g., Koopman, 1989, 1993, 1994), which was considered a synonym of crassulus following Heller et al. (1994), but which is now recognized as a distinct species within Parahypsugo, along with crassulus. Distribution of this species appears to be limited to Cameroon; see discussion in Hutterer et al. (2019).
References:
Amador, L.I., R.L. Moyers Arévalo, F.C. Almeida, S.A. Catalano, and N.P. Giannini. 2016. Bat systematics in the light of unconstrained analyses of a comprehensive molecular supermatrix. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 2016: 1-34. Read abstract.
Heller, K.-G., M. Volleth, and D. Kock. 1994. Notes on some vespertilionid bats from the Kivu region, Central Africa. Senckenbergiana Biologica 74: 1-8. Not available online.
Hill, J.E. 1968. Bats from the Cameroons, with the description of a new species of Pipistrellus. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 19: 43-48. Read article.
Hoofer, S.R., and R.A. Van Den Bussche. 2003. Molecular phylogenetics of the chiropteran family Vespertilionidae. Acta Chiropterologica 5(suppl.): 1-63. Read abstract.
Hutterer, R., J. Decher, A. Monadjem, and J. Astrin. 2019. A new genus and species of Vesper bat from West Africa, with notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus. Acta Chiropterologica 21(1): 1-22. Read abstract.
Koopman, K.F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics. Handbuch der Zoologie, vol. VIII, Mammalia, Part 60. de Gruyter, Berlin: 224 pp. Not available online.
Koopman, K.F. 1993. Chiroptera. Pages 137-241 In D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds.) Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Not available online.
Nycticeinops grandidieri (Dobson, 1876).
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 18(108): 500.
Grandidier's Pipistrelle
Nycticeinops happoldorum (Hutterer, Decher, Monadjem & Astrin, 2019).
Acta Chiropterol. 21(1): 9.
Happolds' Pipistrelle
Guinea, Préfécture Macenta, Simandou Mountains, Western Spur Valley
Guinea, Liberia
CITES - Not Listed (new species). IUCN - Not Evaluated (new species).
References:
Aellen, V. 1956. Speologica africana. Chiroptères des grottes de Guinée. Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire. Série A. Sciences naturelles 18: 884-894. Not available online.
Hutterer, R., J. Decher, A. Monadjem, and J. Astrin. 2019. A new genus and species of Vesper bat from West Africa, with notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus. Acta Chiropterologica 21(1): 1-22. Read abstract.
Nycticeinops macrocephalus (Hutterer & Kerbis Peterhans, 2020).
Lynx, n.s. 50: 53.
Big-headed Pipistrelle
Democratic Republic of Congo, 4 km SW of Talama, Kabogo Forest
Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, possibly Somalia and Kenya
CITES - Not Listed (new species). IUCN - Not Evaluated (new species).
Populations in Kenya and Somalia remain unstudied and these may represent an additional species (Hutterer and Kerbis Peterhans, 2019). Although there is an online version of this publication, and the paper and the date for the species epithet give the date of publication as 2019, the paper appears to have been published in print in 2020. This is the correct date for the species epithet, even if the online version appeared in 2019, since the authors did not provide evidence of a ZooBank registration for the species epithet in the paper.
References:
Hutterer, R., and J. Kerbis Peterhans. 2020 [dated 2019]. A further new species of vesper bat from Central Africa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Lynx, n.s. 50: 51-59. Read article.
Nycticeinops schlieffenii (Peters, 1859).
Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1859: 224.
Schlieffen's Twilight Bat
Formerly included in crassulus, but distinct, see Fahr (2013), Monadjem et al. (2016), and Hutterer et al. (2019).