Hypsugo
Appearance
Hypsugo | |
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Savi's pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Vespertilionidae |
Tribe: | Vespertilionini |
Genus: | Hypsugo Kolenati, 1856 |
The genus Hypsugo contains many bats referred to as pipistrelles or pipistrelle bats. They belong to the family Vespertilionidae or vesper bats.
Species
- Hypsugo alaschanicus (Bobrinskii, 1926) (Alashanian pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo anthonyi (Tate, 1942) (Anthony's pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo arabicus (Harrison, 1979) (Arabian pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo ariel (Thomas, 1904) (desert pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo cadornae (Thomas, 1916) (Cadorna's pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo dolichodon (Görföl, 2014) (long-toothed pipistrelle)[1]
- Hypsugo imbricatus (Horsfield, 1824) (brown pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo joffrei (Thomas, 1915) (Joffre's pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo kitcheneri (Thomas, 1915) (red-brown pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo lanzai Benda, Al-Jumaily, Reiter and Nasher, 2011 (Lanza's pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo lophurus (Thomas, 1915) (Burmese pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo macrotis (Temminck, 1840) (big-eared pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo musciculus (Thomas, 1913) (mouse-like pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo pulveratus (Peters, 1871) (Chinese pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo savii (Bonaparte, 1837) (Savi's pipistrelle)
- Hypsugo vordermanni (Jentink, 1890) (Vordermann's pipistrelle)
A 2019 study reclassified the African species H. crassulus and H. eisentrauti (as well as the subspecies H. c. bellieri, which was upgraded to a distinct species) into the new-described genus Parahypsugo.[2]
References
- ^ http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0108-hance-long-toothed-pipistrelle.html
- ^ Hutterer, Rainer; Decher, Jan; Monadjem, Ara & Astrin, Jonas (October 2019). "A new genus and species of vesper bat from West Africa, with notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)". Acta Chiropterologica. 21 (1): 1–22. doi:10.3161/15081109ACC2019.21.1.001. ISSN 1508-1109.