Cynopterus sphinx Vahl, 1797

Short-nosed fruit bat

New record

Mandalay Division: Ye-nge Spring For- estry Guesthouse.

Previous records from Myanmar

Shan and Rakhine States, and Sagaing, Mandalay and Tanintharyi Divisions (Pearch et al., 2003); Mon State: Kyaik- Kha-Mi (HZM; and J. P. P. Bates et al., unpubl. data).

Comments

Five female specimens were captured at a fruiting fig tree ( Ficus oppositifolia); none is available for study at the Harrison Institute. The variation in forearm length (63.5–76.9 mm) and body mass (22–56 g) suggests that C. brachyotis (Muller, 1838) may also be present in the sample; this lat- ter taxon is currently only recorded with certainty from Rakhine State. For further details of the systematics of Cynopterus in Myanmar see Pearch et al. (2003).