Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat

The Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat (Mops leucostigma) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae, the free-tailed bats, and it is endemic to Madagascar, meaning that it is found nowhere else in the world. The species was described by G. M. Allen in 1918, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility accepts the name Mops leucostigma and places it among the bats of the order Chiroptera. The IUCN Red List, as reported through that same record, rates it Least Concern. Its English Wikipedia article is a very short stub, so details of its appearance, roosting habits and diet are not recorded in the sources consulted for this entry and remain to be added from specialist literature on the bats of Madagascar.