Description

Activity patterns. Le Sueur’s Wing-gland Bat is nocturnal and active early after sunset. Day roosts are located in crevices of cliffs or large rocks. During regular surveys of bat activity conducted in a mountain forest in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, it was unrecorded in winter (July), possibly indicating a period of diapause. It is reportedly quiet and docile when netted. Echolocation call characteristics are typical of low-duty echolocating bats, with strongly FM initial component terminating with short CF component. Echolocation call parameters (mean + SD) recorded in South Africa are: peak frequency of 46 - 5 + 1 - 8 kHz, bandwidth of 45 - 8 + 22 - 7 kHz, and duration of 2: 9 + 0 - 2 milliseconds.

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Chiroptera

Family: Cistugidae

Genus: Cistugo

Species: Cistugo lesueuri Roberts, 1919