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Striped Butterfly Bat

Glauconycteris alboguttata

French: Glauconyctere d'Allen / German: Gestreifte Schmetterlingsfledermaus / Spanish: Glauconicterio de Allen

Other common names: Allen's Butterfly Bat, Allen's Striped Bat, White-spotted Butterfly Bat

Taxonomy. Glauconycteris alboguttatus [sic] J. A. Allen, 1917,

“Medje,” Haut-Uele Province, DR Congo.

Specific name was originally spelled albogulttatus but subsequently corrected to alboguttata for gender agreement. A. Hassanin and colleagues in 2018 retrieved G. alboguttata as sister to part of G. egeria . Monotypic.

Distribution. C Africa, including SW Cameroon, and W & N DR Congo.

Descriptive notes. Head-body c¢.51-55 mm, tail 42-46 mm, ear 12-14 mm, hindfoot 8-9 mm, forearm 38-42 mm; weight 6-9-5 g. Pelage is soft, with 7-8 mm mid-dorsal hairs. Dorsal pelage is sepia-brown, sometimes paler on face, with white shoulder spot and narrow white dorsal flank-stripe. Ventral pelage is slightly paler than dorsal pelage. Ears are pale brown, with paler rim that is rounded, separate, and short for a vespertilionid. Inner margin is semicircular, with backwardly projecting, long, subtriangular lobe, and outer margin has semicircular antitragus and connects with fleshy lobe on lowerlip near corner of mouth. Eyes are very small. Wings and uropatagium are uniformly dark brown and not conspicuously reticulated. Tibia is of medium length (16-18 mm) for Glauconycteris . Head is highdomed, and muzzle is short, broad, and flattish. Skull is moderately large, and profile of forehead is weakly concave compared with other Glauconycteris . I? is weakly bicuspid, with small but visible secondary cusp. Lowerincisors are tricuspid and not crowded.

Habitat. [Lowland tropical moist forests.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. No information.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List.

Bibliography. Happold, M. (2013at), Hassanin et al. (2018).