Parahypsugo eisentrauti ( Hill, 1968 )

Hutterer, Rainer, Decher, Jan, Monadjem, Ara & Astrin, Jonas, 2019, A new genus and species of vesper bat from West Africa, with notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), Acta Chiropterologica 21 (1), pp. 1-22 : 15

Parahypsugo eisentrauti ( Hill, 1968)

Eisentraut’s Pipistrelle

Pipistrellus eisentrauti Hill, 1968: 45 .

Pipistrellus (Hypsugo) eisentrauti: Hill and Harrison, 1987: 246 , 274.

Hypsugo eisentrauti: Hoofer et al., 2006: 991 .

Material examined

ZFMK 1968.0005 , holotype ( Cameroon, Rumpi Hills ); ZFMK 1968.0006 , paratype ( Cameroon, Mt. Kupe ); ZFMK 1999.0676 ( ZFMK-DNA- FC19442872 — Cameroon, Mt. Nlonako ) .

Comments

The history of the taxon eisentrauti is rather complicated. It was originally described in the genus Pipistrellus based on specimens from Cameroon (Rumpi Hills and Mt Kupe) ( Hill, 1968). This was followed by the description of the taxon bellieri that was originally assigned to P. eisentrauti (see above). Both these taxa and P. crassulus were then moved to the genus Hypsugo and bellieri removed from P. eisentrauti to P. crassulus ( Heller et al., 1994) , although this was disputed by Koopman et al. (1995). In addition, new specimens of the taxon eisentrauti were reported from Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda ( Heller et al., 1994; Varty and Hill, 1988; Thorn and Kerbis Peterhans, 2009; see also Van Cakenberghe et al., 2017). However, specimens collected east of Cameroon probably represent one (or more) new species, which have not yet been studied in detail. Also a specimen (ROM 100532) used by Hoofer and Van Den Bussche (2003) to characterize P. eisentrauti in their tree represents a different species, most probably P. bellieri ( Van Cakenberghe and Happold, 2013) . Hoofer et al. (2006) listed the holotype (with misspelled type locality ‘Rumysi Hilus’ = Rumpi Hills) and the paratype of P. eisentrauti , but in their trees they used the wrong sequence that had been published previously (Hoofer and Van den Busche, 2003). The same (but wrong) sequence was recently used again by Amador et al. (2018). Our tree ( Fig. 1 ) includes a new specimen of P. eisentrauti from Mt. Nlonako, a mountain neighboring Mt. Cameroon, the type locality for this species.

Figures

FIG. 1. Bayesian consensus topology based on the cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene and the cytochrome b (Cyt-b) gene. Tadarida brasiliensis and T. teniotis were designated as outgroup taxa. See Appendix I for a complete list of GenBank numbers.