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Plain-faced bats


Suborder Vespertilioniformes

Family Vespertilionidae 

Species

Lesueur’s wing-gland bat/hairy bat (Cistugo lesueuri)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Decreasing
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Angolan wing-gland bat (Cistugo seabrae)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Long-tailed (house bat) serotine  (Eptesicus hottentotus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Common butterfly bat/silvered bat (Glauconycteris argentata)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Beatrix butterfly bat (Glauconycteris Beatrix)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern


Population trend

Unknown
Webite resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Arkive
Variegated butterfly bat (Glauconycteris variegate/variagata)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Ancheita’s pipistrelle (Hypsugo/Pipistrellus anchietae)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Damara woolly bat (Kerivoula argentata)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Arkive
Lesser woolly bat (Kerivoula lanosa)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Angolan long-eared bat (Laephotis angolensis)
IUCN conservation status

Data deficient
Population trend

Unknown
Website resourcesI
IUCN
iNaturalist
Botswana long-eared bat (Laephotis botswanae)
IUCN conservation status 

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Namibian long-eared bat (Laephotis namibensis)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Stable
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
De Winton’s long-eared bat (Laephotis wintoni)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Moloney’s flat-headed bat (Mimetillus moloneyi)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Thomas’s flat-headed bat (Mimetillus thomasi)
IUCN conservation status

Not assessed
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
Rufous Mouse-eared bat/ myotis (Myotis bocagii)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Temminck’s myotis/Cape hairy bat (Myotis tricolor)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Welwitsch’s/mouse-eared bat/ myotis (Myotis welwitschii)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Cape serotine (Neoromicia/Pipistrellus capensis)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Stable
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Kruger serotine (Neoromicia cf. melckorum)
IUCN conservation status

Not assessed
Population trend

Unknown
Websites resources
IUCN
Banana Pipistrelle/ bat (Neoromicia nana/Pipistrellus nanus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Rendall’s serotine (Neoromicia rendalli)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
White-winged serotine (Neoromicia tenuipinnis)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Zulu serotine (Neoromicia zuluensis)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Schlieffen’s twilight bat (Nycticeinops schlieffeni)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Arkive
Dobson’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus grandidieri)
IUCN conservation status

Not evaluated
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
iNaturalist
Dusky pipistrelle (Pipistrellus hesperidus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Tiny pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nanulus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Ruppell’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus rueppelli)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Arkive

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  • Why bats
    • Bats and ecosystems
    • Threats to bats
    • Bats of southern Africa
  • About us
    • Our story
    • Our strategy
    • Our colony
    • Our Partners and Sponsors
    • Jobs / Volunteer
  • Our work
    • Applied research
    • Capacity strengthening >
      • Early Career Training
      • Bat Group Training
    • Conservation action >
      • Fruit bat monitoring in Malawi
      • Copperbelt Bats Project
    • Engagement and education
    • Events & Training >
      • Webinars
      • Past events
  • Our impact
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Business partnership opportunities
    • Fundraise for Bats
    • Kids Zone >
      • Classroom without Walls
    • Shop