Common names: African Yellow Bat, African Yellow House Bat, Dingan's Bat, Yellow House Bat, Yellow-bellied House Bat (English), Geel Dakvlermuis (Afrikaans). Distribution: This species is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, recorded from most biotic zones and countries. It ranges from Senegal and the Gambia in the west, through West Africa and parts of Central Africa, to Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Ethiopia in the east; from here it ranges south through much of East Africa and southern Africa, being recorded as far south as eastern South Africa, including Swaziland. Within the assessment region, it has been recorded in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, and Swaziland, through to northern South Africa, Zimbabwe, eastern and northern Botswana, northern Namibia, Zambia and Malawi (Monadjem et al. 2010b). It is absent from the plateau grassland and Karoo regions of South Africa and the Kalahari (Monadjem et al. 2010b), and has not been recorded from Lesotho (Monadjem et al. 2010b; ACR 2015). The estimated extent of occurrence is 622,509 km2.