A new fruit bat of the genus Myonycteris Matschie, 1899, from eastern Kenya and Tanzania (Mammalia, Megachiroptera)

M. relicta sp. nov. is described from the Shimba Hills in southeast Kenya and from the Usambara Mountains in northeast Tanzania. The species is larger than the only other known African mainland species of the genus, M. torquata (Dobson, 1878), from the Central and West African rain forests; if compared to M. torquata and to the only other species in the genus, M. brachycephala (Bocage, 1889) from São Tomé, it has a relatively longer rostrum, a more deflected cranial axis, and further differs in number, shape and position of its teeth. The new species provides new arguments for the relationship between the genera Myonycteris Matschie, 1899, and Lissonycteris Andersen, 1912. M. relicta is probably a forest species and, as such, restricted to isolated East African forests.