{{Short description|Species of bat}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}} {{speciesbox | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref=<ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Jacobs, D. |author2=Cotterill, F.P.D. |author3=Taylor, P.J. |date=2019 |title=''Glauconycteris egeria'' |volume=2019 |article-number=e.T44793A22070128 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T44793A22070128.en}}</ref> | genus = Glauconycteris | species = egeria | authority = Thomas, 1913 | synonyms = {{species list | Chalinolobus egeria| (Thomas, 1913)}} }} The '''Bibundi bat''' ('''''Glauconycteris egeria''''') is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It can be found in Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve.

==Taxonomy== It was described as a new species in 1913 by British zoologist Oldfield Thomas. The holotype had been collected in Bibundi, Cameroon by R. Kemp during the Rudd Exploration.<ref name="Thomas 1913">{{cite journal|last=Thomas|first=O.|year=1913| title=X.—On some specimens of Glauconycteris from the Cameroons| journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology| series = 8 |volume=11| pages=144–145|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18635705}}</ref> Based on molecular evidence, it is closely related to the silvered bat (''G. argentata'').<ref name="Hassanin 2018"/>

==Description== Its flight membranes are brown, and it has dusky brown fur.<ref name="Thomas 1913"/> Its fur can also be dark brown or nearly black. It has conspicuous whitish stripes on the sides of its back<ref name="Hassanin 2018"/> Its forearm length is approximately {{cvt|38|mm|in}}. The head and body measures {{cvt|43|mm|in}} while the tail is {{cvt|41|mm|in}} long. It has very large ears, with fairly large tragi.<ref name="Thomas 1913"/>

==Range and habitat== The Bibundi bat is an African species, with documented occurrence in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Uganda.<ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021" /> It is rarely encountered, with records from only six localities as of 2018.<ref name="Hassanin 2018">{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/jzs.12176|doi-access=free|title=Multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation within the genus Glauconycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), with the description of a new bat species from the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|journal=Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research|volume=56|pages=1–22|year=2018|last1=Hassanin|first1=Alexandre|last2=Colombo|first2=Raphaël|last3=Gembu|first3=Guy-Crispin|last4=Merle|first4=Marie|last5=Tu|first5=Vuong Tan|last6=Görföl|first6=Tamás|last7=Akawa|first7=Prescott Musaba|last8=Csorba|first8=Gábor|last9=Kearney|first9=Teresa|last10=Monadjem|first10=Ara|last11=Ing|first11=Ros Kiri|hdl=2263/63908|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

==Conservation== As of 2019, it is evaluated as a data deficient species by the IUCN because there is little is known about it.<ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021" />

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{Vespertilionidae|V.|V.}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q1833024}}

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