Cistugo lesueuri

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIDAE

Scientific Name:

Cistugo lesueuri

Species Authority:

Roberts, 1919

Common Name/s:

English

–

Lesueur's Hairy Bat

Synonym/s:

Myotis lesueuri (Roberts, 1919)

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Published:

2008

Assessor/s:

Jacobs, D.

Reviewer/s:

Hutson, A.M., Racey, P.A. (Chiroptera Red List Authority) & Cox, N. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Contributor/s:

Justification:
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

History:

2004	–	Vulnerable
1996	–	Vulnerable (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)
1996	–	Vulnerable
1996	–	Vulnerable

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is restricted to South Africa and Lesotho. Skinner and Chimimba (2005) provide the distribution of the species being "confined to the Northern Cape and the Western Cape, where they occur from the vicinity of Franschhoek north to Citrusdal and north-east to Beaufort West and Mazelsfontein in the Great Karoo" but may range a little more widely than this. The species has been recorded at four localities in the eastern Free State and from a number of localities in adjacent Lesotho (Lynch 1994; Watson 1998).
Countries:	Native: Lesotho; South Africa
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Population [top]

Population:	This species is very rarely recorded.
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	In the eastern part of its range this bat has been reported close to water in open montane grassveld, and from broken country with koppies and cliffs (Lynch 1994; Watson 1998; Skinner and Chimimba 2005). In the Western Cape it inhabits fynbos and possibly the succulent karoo. In the Free State and Lesotho, a number of animals have been collected from rock crevices, including a group of 40 individuals (Watson 1998).
Systems:	Terrestrial

Habitat and Ecology:

In the eastern part of its range this bat has been reported close to water in open montane grassveld, and from broken country with koppies and cliffs (Lynch 1994; Watson 1998; Skinner and Chimimba 2005). In the Western Cape it inhabits fynbos and possibly the succulent karoo. In the Free State and Lesotho, a number of animals have been collected from rock crevices, including a group of 40 individuals (Watson 1998).

Systems:

Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It is locally threatened in parts of its range by conversion of land to agricultural use.

Major Threat(s):

It is locally threatened in parts of its range by conversion of land to agricultural use.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	This species is probably present in a number of protected areas. Further studies are needed into the distribution and natural history of this bat.

Conservation Actions:

This species is probably present in a number of protected areas. Further studies are needed into the distribution and natural history of this bat.

Citation:	Jacobs, D. 2008. Cistugo lesueuri. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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