Common names: Roberts' Flat-headed Bat, Roberts’s Flat-headed Bat, Flat-headed Free-tailed Bat, Rock-loving Flat-headed Bat, Rock-dwelling Flat-headed Bat, Flatheaded Free-tailed Bat (English), Platkoplosstertvlermuis (Afrikaans).  Distribution: The species is widely but patchily distributed throughout southern Africa ranging along the west coast from southern Angola through Namibia, south into South Africa. In South Africa, its distribution extends southwards into the Western Cape Province, as well as eastwards along the northern border of South Africa, extending marginally into southern Botswana (Cotterill 2013) and into Zimbabwe and western Mozambique (Monadjem et al. 2010). It is inexplicably absent from northwest Zimbabwe where habitat is thought to be suitable (Monadjem et al. 2010). It is abundant in the drier western regions of Namibia and South Africa (Skinner & Chimimba 2005), and is generally found between 100 m and 2,000 m asl. In South Africa its range is discontinuous, with records from Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Pretoria area of Gauteng, Western Cape (Clanwilliam and Ceres) and the Northern Cape (e.g. Goodhouse and Augrabies Falls) provinces (Figure 1; Monadjem et al. 2010). This species is also present within the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area, as well as the Ai-Ais Richtersveld Transfrontier Park (Skinner and Chimimba 2005; Monadjem et al. 2010). The type specimen is from the former Transvaal, now North West Province, South Africa (Monadjem et al. 2010). The distribution of this species is fragmented owing to the patchy nature of its habitat (Monadjem et al. 2010). The estimated extent of occurrence in the assessment region is 634,414 km2 .