Rhinolophus pearsoni Horsfield, 1851

Struebig, Matthew J., Rossiter, Stephen J., Bates, Paul J. J., Kingston, Tigga, Oo, Sai Sein Lin, Nwe, Aye Aye, Aung, Moe Moe, Win, Sein Sein & Mya, Khin Mya, 2005, Results of a recent bat survey in Upper Myanmar including new records from the Kachin forests, Acta Chiropterologica 7 (1), pp. 147-163 : 154-155

Rhinolophus pearsoni Horsfield, 1851 Pearson’s horseshoe bat

New material

Kachin State: Namdee Hill, 11.4.2003, 1 ♀ (MA030411:2).

Previous records from Myanmar

Kachin, Shan, and Mon States are in- cluded in Bates et al. (2004 b).

Comments

Distinguished by its smaller size ( Tables 1 and 2) from the morphologically similar

Species C–M3 M3–M3 C–M3 C1–C1 MDL Rhinolophus pearsoni 9.6 8.9 10.4 6.2 16.5 R. stheno 7.1 6.6 7.6 4.3 11.9 7.2 6.6 7.6 4.3 12.0 R. malayanus 6.7 5.9 7.7 4.1 11.6 R. pusillus 6.0 5.6 6.4 3.9 10.5 5.9, 6.0 5.3, 5.6 6.2, 6.3 3.4, 3.9 10.1, 10.2 R. shameli 7.8 7.0 8.4 5.0 13.5 Aselliscus stoliczkanus 5.4, 5.5 5.4, 5.5 6.1, 6.5 3.3, 3.4 9.4, 9.6 Hipposideros pomona 5.9, 6.0 5.7, 5.9 6.2, 6.3 3.3, 3.4 10.3, 10.6 Murina cyclotis 5.53 5.64 6.12 4.3 11.38 M. tubinaris 4.97 5.03 5.57 3.53 9.94 5.08 5.11 5.53 3.72 10.52 Kerivoula hardwickii 5.38 4.93 5.97 3.22 9.70 K. kachinensis 6.80 6.40 7.10 4.17 12.70 Pipistrellus coromandra 4.30 5.25 4.61 3.90 8.59

Rhinolophidae Hipposideridae Vespertilionidae

R. yunanensis (SL = 24.60–27.25 mm; C–M 3 = 10.14–11.24 mm, based on Csorba et al., 2003). Rhinolophus pear- sonii is a relatively common species in southern/South-East Asia.