Abstract:
Bat distributions are still comparatively poorly
known in Africa and updated national species lists do not
exist for many countries. We present a revised checklist of
the bats of Swaziland, which includes seven species not
previously listed. Of these, two species are recent additions
(Mops midas and Myotis bocagii) and these records
marginally extend their known distributional range. A
total of 26 species of bats are now known from the country,
but additional surveys are predicted to add more taxa
to the list. These new records predominantly come from
human-modified landscapes, underscoring the importance
of further surveys in such transformed habitats.
