Lesser long-fingered bat

The lesser long-fingered bat (Miniopterus fraterculus), also called the lesser bent-winged bat, is a bat of the family Miniopteridae that the Mammal Diversity Database places in the Afrotropical realm, with recorded countries Eswatini and South Africa and Mozambique queried. Oldfield Thomas and Harold Schwann described it in 1906 from a cave on the sea coast at Knysna in the Western Cape of South Africa. The database gives its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern, lists it in Mammal Species of the World of 2005, and notes that the genus was moved from the family Vespertilionidae into Miniopteridae.