Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821

Srinivasulu, Chelmala, Srinivasulu, Aditya, Srinivasulu, Bhargavi, Gopi, Asad, Dar, Tauseef Hamid, Bates, Paul J. J., Rossiter, Stephen J. & Jones, Gareth, 2017, Recent surveys of bats from the Andaman Islands, India: diversity, distribution, and echolocation characteristics, Acta Chiropterologica 19 (2), pp. 419-437 : 431

Family Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821

The family Vespertilionidae was the most species-rich group with six species — including two endemic subspecies — recorded from the Andaman Islands. Hesperoptenus tickelli , Tylonycteris pachypus and T. robustula are the forest-dwelling species. Tylonycteris species are bamboo-dependent and have been observed in forests with lush growth of bamboo. Pipistrellus coromandra occurs in forested tracts, while P. javanicus camortae was recorded mostly in human-dominated habitats and sometimes in the forested tracts. Myotis horsfieldii dryas was recorded only in forests and was found roosting in caves and tree hollows.