Common names: Natal Long-fingered Bat, Natal Clinging Bat (English). Distribution: This widely distributed species has largely been recorded from southern and East Africa, with some records from Central Africa and from the Arabian Peninsula. In Africa, it ranges south from Angola and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, into Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia, and from here north into Tanzania, Kenya, possibly Uganda, possibly southern Sudan and possibly Ethiopia (ACR 2015). It occurs widely within southern Africa, but with more records in the southern and eastern parts than in the arid west (Monadjem et al. 2010). It has been recorded from the southern tip of South Africa east and northwards through much of the country and neighbouring Lesotho and Swaziland, occurring in all nine South African provinces. It also occurs widely in Namibia and southern and western Angola, but appears absent from much of the Kalahari (Monadjem et al. 2010). The type specimen is from Durban, South Africa (BM 1848.6.12.19) (Monadjem et al. 2010). Because of frequent misidentification between this species and Miniopterus schreibersii, there is a need to carefully review the distribution of Miniopterus natalensis (ACR 2015). The extent of occurrence (EOO) is calculated as 1,387,139 km2.