Distribution. Known from scattered localities throughout Africa and Middle East, including N Africa from Morocco to Egypt and W Africa (Senegal and Mauritania) E to Sudan and Ethiopia and S throughoutthe rest of sub-Saharan Africa to N South Africa as well as Unguja I (Zanzibar Archipelago), and Middle East in Israel, SE Iraq, Kuwait, extreme SW Iran, Bahrain, and SW Yemen; distribution is probably much more continuous. in Vespertilionidae

Distribution. Known from scattered localities throughout Africa and Middle East, including N Africa from Morocco to Egypt and W Africa (Senegal and Mauritania) E to Sudan and Ethiopia and S throughoutthe rest of sub-Saharan Africa to N South Africa as well as Unguja I (Zanzibar Archipelago), and Middle East in Israel, SE Iraq, Kuwait, extreme SW Iran, Bahrain, and SW Yemen; distribution is probably much more continuous.Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Vespertilionidae, pp. 716-981 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 762, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.639775