Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri (Dobson, 1876)

Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2), pp. 255-282 : 273-274

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4336022

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scientific name

Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri (Dobson, 1876)
status

 

Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri (Dobson, 1876) View in CoL View at ENA

New material

ZFMK 2008.0300 About ZFMK , ♀, FC, 8 March 2008 ; ZFMK 2008.0301 About ZFMK , ♂, FC, 9 March 2008 ; ZFMK 2008 About ZFMK . 0302, ♂, W1, 25 February 2008 .

One individual was caught in the canopy net set over the creek in the ravine forest at W1 and three individuals of this species were captured at FC. The female from FC carried one embryo of 17 mm crown-rump length. Field notes and photographs document the somewhat yellowish fur of the W1 individual. Our three voucher specimens grouped with a specimen from Mount Nimba ( DM 13220/ JX 508839 View Materials ) labelled Pipistrellus sp. 1 in Monadjem et al. (2013 b). We tentatively assign them to Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri , similar to a specimen from Fetto (near Foye, Karanka River) in the Fouta Djallon Region of Guinea (Weber and Fahr, 2007 b) and specimens from Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Cameroon (Monadjem and Fahr, 2007; Weber and Fahr, 2007 b). A first country record from Atewa, Ghana, was also referred to as Neoromicia cf. grandidieri by Weber and Fahr (2007 a), but our genetic results ( Fig. 3 View FIG ) do not support this generic allocation. Our measurements agree well with those of the holotype Vesperugo (Vesperus) grandidieri Dobson, 1876 ( Thorn et al., 2007) and they are much smaller than measurements of the newly described species Neoromicia roseveari ( Monadjem et al., 2013 b) . Given that the holotype of P. grandidieri is from Zanzibar ( Thorn et al., 2007), this West African form might “possibly represent an undescribed species” (Monadjem and Fahr, 2007: 105). However, x -ray photographs of the baculum of ZFMK 2008.0302 ( Fig. 9 View FIG ) showed notable similarity with the drawing of the baculum of P. grandidieri grandidieri from Bamba Mluni, Tanzania ( SMF 83513 View Materials ) in Thorn et al. (2007: Fig 2 View FIG ).

Conservation status

The conservation status of this species has not yet been evaluated by the IUCN (2015).

DM

Dominion Museum

ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

SMF

Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

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