Glen's Butterfly Bat

Glauconycteris gleni Peterson & Smith 1973

Glauconycteris gleni Peterson & Smith, 1973 New material. AD.2024.22.05.222, ♂ (subadult), 22 May 2024, Yenga fishing site , within the Zone of Hunting Interests with Community Management (ZICGC) of LNP, 2°17.59'N, 15°21.37'E, elevation 560 m a. s. l. (Fig. 11 A) . This study provides the first Cytb sequences for G. gleni, which is available in GenBank (PZ 458539) (Suppl. material 1). The new Cytb sequence showed an 88 % similarity to a specimen of G. beatrix (Hassanin et al. 2018: MF 038538) and an 87 % similarity to a specimen of G. argentata (Hassanin et al. 2018: MF 038490), both from DRC. Status and distribution. Glauconycteris gleni was previously known from three localities in three countries, Cameroon (type locality: near Lomie, ca 3°10.00'N, 13°37.00'E), Tanzania, and Uganda (Monadjem et al. 2024). Yenga fishing site is now the fourth locality known (Table 1). It is listed as DD (Data Deficient) by the IUCN Red List (Jacobs et al. 2019 b). Additionally, two unpublished and unregistered specimens without skulls from Uganda, provisionally referred to this species are held in the Natural History Museum UK (NHMUK). Of these, one from Sango Bay (Field no. 681) may be cor

An integrated taxonomic and conservation assessment of Glauconycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Cameroon, with the description of two new species from the Northwestern Congolian Lowland Forest

conservation

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (nt) as Chalinolobus gleni.

Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae

biology_ecology

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Vespertilionidae

conservation

Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. Glen's Butterfly Bat is presumably threatened by habitats loss from logging and agriculture.

Vespertilionidae