| Lesser woolly bat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Vespertilionidae |
| Genus: | Kerivoula |
| Species: | K. lanosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Kerivoula lanosa (A. Smith, 1847)
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The lesser woolly bat (Kerivoula lanosa) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Botswana, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and rarely Ethiopia.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, and moist savanna. Members of this species typically have a dark greyish brown fur with whitish tips scattered throughout.
- ^ Monadjem, A.; Taylor, P.J.; Jacobs, D.; Cotterill, F.P.D. (2017). "Kerivoula lanosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T10977A22021700. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T10977A22021700.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Kruskop, Sergei V., and Leonid A. Lavrenchenko. "Primary results of a bat survey in southwestern Ethiopia, with a new Ethiopian record of Kerivoula lanosa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)." Russian J Theriol 7 (2008): 71-76.