Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817)

Patterson, Georgina, Martin, Thomas Edward, Adams, Nathan, Cropper, Olivia, Mustari, Abdul Haris & Tosh, David G., 2017, Lowland rainforest bat communities of Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, including new regional records, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65, pp. 373-385 : 382

Miniopterus schreibersii

A very wide-ranging species found from Eurasia to West Africa and Australia, the Buton populations belonging to the subspecies M. s. oceanensis. The species as a whole is considered near-threatened due to disturbance of its roosting habitats, especially in the European part of its range, although the conservation status of M. s. oceanensis remains unassessed ( Hutson et al., 2008a), and its precise taxonomy unclear. It is a rare species in our study area, being known from three individuals captured in harp traps by GP within BUR (14 July 2014, 15 July 2014). Our records represent a minor extension to the known range of this species, which has been previously mapped in southeast Sulawesi ( Hutson et al., 2008a) but not Buton.