Beccari's free-tailed bat

Beccari's free-tailed bat, Ozimops beccarii, is a species of free-tailed bat in the family Molossidae found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It occurs in savanna, tropical moist forest and fragmented or urban habitat from sea level to about 300 metres, and roosts in small colonies in trees, caves and buildings, including houses and Melaleuca tree hollows. The German naturalist Wilhelm Peters described it in 1881 from a holotype that Odoardo Beccari collected on Ambon Island, and Beccari is honoured in the species name. The names Beccari's free-tailed bat and Beccari's mastiff bat once applied to Australian populations, which were separated in 2014 as a distinct species, Mormopterus lumsdenae. It is evaluated as least concern by the IUCN because its preferred habitat is abundant and no major threats are known, though it is encountered infrequently and known from only about twenty localities.