Neoromicia Roberts, 1926. Ann. Transvaal Mus. 11: 245
Eptesicus zuluensis Roberts, 1924
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.
Neoromicia hlandzeni Taylor, Strydom, Richards, Markotter, Toussaint, Kearney, Cotterill, Howard, Weier, Keith, Neef, Mamba, Magagula & Monadjem, 2022.
Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 196: 1578, 1583.
Lowveld Serotine
Eswatini, Mlawula Nature Reseerve, near the Siweni train siding in the NE lowveld savanna region of the country
Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Not Evaluated (new species).
Records from Zambia, Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo currently identified as anchietae may be hlandzeni; see Taylor et al. (2022).
References:
Taylor, P.J., E. Strydom, L. Richards, W. Markotter, D.C. Toussaint, T. Kearney, F.P.D. Cotterill, A. Howard, S.M. Weier, M. Keith, G. Neef, M.L. Mamba, S. Magagula, and A. Monadjem. 2022. Integrative taxonomic analysis of new collections from the central Angolan highlands resolves the taxonomy of African pipistrelloid bats on a continental scale. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 1570-1590. Read abstract.
Neoromicia was often considered a subgenus of Pipistrellus (e.g, Hill and Harrison, 1987; Koopman, 1994) or Eptesicus (e.g., Koopman, 1993), but the genus was raised to generic rank and transferred to Vespertilionini by Volleth et al. (2001) based on karyotype data. Kearney et al. (2002) provided additional evidence in support of this arrangement. Treated here as a distinct genus following Monadjem et al. (2020), who conducted a phylogenetic analysis and provided a revised taxonomy for all African and Malagasy Vespertilionini and Pipistrellini.