Hipposideros armiger Hodgson 1835

Hipposideros armiger Hodgson 1835, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 4: 699.

Type Locality: Nepal.

Vernacular Names: Great Leaf-nosed Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Hipposideros armiger subsp. armiger Hodgson 1835

Subspecies Hipposideros armiger subsp. fujianensis Zhen 1987

Subspecies Hipposideros armiger subsp. terasensis Kishida 1924

Subspecies Hipposideros armiger subsp. tranninhensis Bourret 1942

Distribution: N India, Nepal, Burma, S and SE China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Taiwan.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: armiger species group. Includes terasensis, but see Yoshiyuki (1991 a) and Pavlinov et al. (1995 b). Reviewed in part by Kock (1996) Bates and Harrison (1997), Sinha (1999), and Hendrichsen et al. (2001 b).