Medje free-tailed bat

The Medje free-tailed bat, Mops congicus, is a species of bat in the family Molossidae, the free-tailed bats. It is known from three countries: Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The species was described as new to science in 1917 by Joel Asaph Allen. The holotype, the specimen on which the name rests, was collected in 1910 by Herbert Lang and James Chapin near the town of Medje, in what was then Belgian Congo, and that town gives the bat its common name.