Black and red free-tailed bat

The black and red free-tailed bat (Mops jobimena) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae, the free-tailed bats, and is endemic to western Madagascar. Its forearm measures 45 to 48 millimetres. The known habitats are tropical dry deciduous forest and spiny forest at altitudes from 50 to 870 metres, and it roosts in trees as well as in houses and other buildings, but has not been found to roost commonly in caves. Although it is placed in the genus Mops, whose members it resembles in form, molecular evidence shows its closest relatives are Tadarida aegyptiaca of Africa and southwest Asia and Tadarida brasiliensis of the Americas, with Tadarida aegyptiaca as its sister species, so the likeness to Mops appears to be convergent. The IUCN lists it as least concern because it has an extensive range that takes in the vicinity of four protected areas and does not seem to depend on undisturbed forest, though subsistence hunting may be a threat in southern Madagascar.