. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. THORN & KERBIS PETERHANS, SMALL MAMMALS OF UGANDA 3^ \ / \ 4 N- hp FIG. 43. Distribution of select Molossidae: Myopte- rus whitleyi (A), Otomops martiensseni (â ). Shaded areas indicate lakes. Western. Budongo (ROM 46695, Peterson et al. 1995: 180). Southern. Ruhiza 2286 m (LACM 35538). Measurements. (Budongo) HB 92; T 44; FA 65; HF 13; E 37; WTG 30; SK ; XZ ; XBC ; XIO ; CM3 ; M2M2 Myopterus whitleyi. Fig. 42B Mormopterus whitleyi Scharff 1900, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 (6): 569; Benin City (Nigeria 6°19'N 5°41'E). E
. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. THORN & KERBIS PETERHANS, SMALL MAMMALS OF UGANDA 3^ \ / \ 4 N- hp FIG. 43. Distribution of select Molossidae: Myopte- rus whitleyi (A), Otomops martiensseni (â ). Shaded areas indicate lakes. Western. Budongo (ROM 46695, Peterson et al. 1995: 180). Southern. Ruhiza 2286 m (LACM 35538). Measurements. (Budongo) HB 92; T 44; FA 65; HF 13; E 37; WTG 30; SK ; XZ ; XBC ; XIO ; CM3 ; M2M2 Myopterus whitleyi. Fig. 42B Mormopterus whitleyi Scharff 1900, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 (6): 569; Benin City (Nigeria 6°19'N 5°41'E). Eomops whitleyi Thom^is 1905, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 (16): 572. Myopterus whitleyi Thomas 1915, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 8 (16): 468. Range. This rare bat is clearly a forest species, now known from Ghana to Uganda and southern D. R. Congo. The single one, and then four, taken from two locations in central Uganda in 1907 and listed with- out comment by DeBeaux (1922) remain the only Uganda specimens. Possibly deforestation since then has destroyed the only habitat suitable for a very sus- ceptible species, but elsewhere examples (two and four together) were taken in a house (Cabrera & Ruxton 1926), and two in a rubber-packing shed (Sanderson 1940), suggest some ecological flexibility. Fig. 43 di- splays the Ugandan distribution. Central. Entebbe (DeBeaux 1922; MCG, BMNH, MNHN, ZMB; Kock in htt. 1994). N Buganda. Bussu (DeBeaux 1922, MCG). Measurements. (Rosevear 1965) HB 56-66; T 25-33; FA 33-36; SK ; XZ ; XMST ; CW ; M^M^ Tadarida aegyptiaca. Fig. 42F, F Nyctinomus aegyptiacus E. Geoffroy St. Hilaire (1818) "Description de I'Egypte: Mammiferes" 2: 128; Giza (Koopman 1975, p. 422). Tadarida aegyptiaca Hill & Carter 1941, Bui. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 78: 54. Range. Very widespread in dry hot areas from Egypt to Cape Town and Angola, recently discovered in Nigeria and Morocco. Several large colonies are well known
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