Chaerephon chapini J. A. Allen 1917
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Chaerephon
Chaerephon chapini

description: 62. Long-crested Free-tailed Bat <i>Chaerephon chapini</i> <b>French:</b> Tadaride de Chapin / <b>German:</b> Chapin-Bulldogfledermaus / Spanish: Caerepon de Chapin <b>Other common names:</b> Chapin’s Free-tailed Bat, Chapin’'s Wrinkle-lipped Bat, Crested Free-tailed Bat, Crested Wrinklelipped Bat, Long-crested Gland-tailed Bat, Long-crested Wrinkle-lipped Bat, Pale Free-tailed Bat <b>Taxonomy.</b> Chaerephon (Lophomops) chaprl ni]. A. Allen, 1917, “Faradje, northeastern Belg Congo [= DR Congo].” This species was previously divided into three subspecies (chapini, shortridge, lancaster); indeed, race shortridge: has even been considered a separate species. However, pending further study, A. Monadjem and coauthors in 2010 and the African Chiroptera Report of 2017 are provisionally followed here in treating this complex as a single monotypic species; the £0is in need of revision. Monotypic. <b>Distribution.</b> Very patchily distributed over much of sub-Saharan Africa in Ivory Coast, Ghana, South Sudan, Ethiopia, NE &amp; S DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. <b>Descriptive notes.</b> Head-body ¢.50-60 mm, tail 27-44 mm, ear 12-19 mm, hindfoot 6-9 mm, forearm 34-40 mm; weight 5-11 g. Pelage of the Long-crested Free-tailed Bat is short and pale gray, pale rusty brown or medium grayish brown above with no grizzling or white spots; pure white or pale grayish brown below with mid-ventral markings white or absent, and white flank-stripe. Upper lip has 5-6 well-defined wrinkles on each side and many spoon-hairs. Ears are brown, joined by band of skin containing back-facing pocket for interaural crest; they are of medium length, almost reaching end of muzzle when folded forward. Tragus is minute, partly concealed by antitragus. Males have long bicolored interaural crest of 12-15 mm, basally rusty brown or gray and terminally white; in females crestis shorter, 3-5 mm, and white. Wings are white (or occasionally pale to grayish brown), becoming yellowish toward body, with many minute black specks; tail membrane is medium brown. There are no gular ortail glands. Anterior palatal emargination is variable, can be narrowly open or closed, and basisphenoid pits are moderately developed. M* has third ridge one-half to two-thirds the length of second ridge. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 48 and FNa = 64. <b>Habitat.</b> All southern African records of Long-crested Free-tailed Bats are associated with cathedral mopane woodland. Elsewhere, they are also found in Isoberlinia (Fabaceae) woodland, Acacia (Fabaceae)— Commiphora (Burseraceae) bushland, and miombo woodland. <b>Food and Feeding.</b> [.ong-crested Free-tailed Bats are open-air foragers. In the dry season in Zimbabwe (April-October), diet comprised mostly Coleoptera with some Lepidoptera, Diptera, and other insects. <b>Breeding.</b> Scattered data from southern Africa indicate seasonal polyestry with a postpartum estrus. <b>Activity patterns.</b> Long-crested Free-tailed Bats are nocturnal and often netted near rivers. They produce narrowband, low-frequency (peak frequency 20 kHz), and longduration (5h—10 milliseconds) echolocation calls. <b>Movements, Home range and Social organization.</b> [.ong-crested Free-tailed Bats roost communally in small to medium-sized groups. <b>Status and Conservation.</b> Classified as LLeast Concern on The IUCN Red List, due to its wide distribution and expected large population, and because it occurs in a number of protected areas. Although it can be common in north-western Zimbabwe,it is rarely collected. <b>Bibliography.</b> ACR (2017), Fenton &amp; Eger (2002), Happold &amp; Cotterill (2013), Monadjem, Cotterill, Hutson et al. (2017c), Monadjem, Taylor et al. (2010).
description: Published as part of <i>Don E. Wilson &amp; Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Molossidae, pp. 598-672 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions</i> on page 646, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6418279