Table 1.

Number of occurrence records of the bat species in Africa.

Species	Number of occurrence records
Epomops franqueti	341
Hypsignathus monstrosus	219
Myonycteris torquata	143
Eidolon helvum	635
Epomophorus gambianus	346
Lissonycteris angolensis	130
Micropteropus pusillus	397
Mops condylurus	358
Rousettus aegyptiacus	483
Total	3,052

The corresponding references to the GBIF⁵⁰ and African Chiroptera Reports 2018 and 2019^30,31 occurrence data can be found in the Supplementary Material (see Supplementary Materials S1–S3).