Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Afronycteris rautenbachi resulted in 1 species-level match:

Afronycteris Monadjem, Patterson & Demos, . Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 2020: 25

Vespertilio nanus (Peters, 1852)

Includes species previously included in Laephotis but which do not form a clade with members of that genus in recent phylogenetic analyses (see Monadjem et al., 2020)

References:

Monadjem, A., T.C. Demos, D.L. Dalton, P.W. Webala, S. Musila, J.C. Kerbis Peterhans, and B.D. Patterson. 2020. A revision of pipistrelle-like bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in East Africa with the description of new genera and species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-33. Read abstract.

Afronycteris rautenbachi Kearney, De Vries & Markotter, 2026.
Zootaxa 5768(1): 15.
Kruger Tail-gland Bat

South Africa, Limpopo province, Kruger National Park, Makuleka Contract Park, in a Lala palm grove on the edge of a dry pan

Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, but may be more widespread

CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Not Evaluated (new species).

See Kearney et al. (2026) for a discussion of the morphological characters (especially the presence of uropatagial glands) of rautenbachi, helios, and nanus.

References:

Kearney, T., M. De Vries, and W. Markotter. 2026. Description of a new species of African pipistrelle-like bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Afronycteris). Zootaxa 5768(1): 1-28. Read abstract.