Parahypsugo crassulus ( Thomas, 1904 )

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3161/15081109ACC2019.21.1.001

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3808659

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scientific name

Parahypsugo crassulus ( Thomas, 1904 )
status

 

Parahypsugo crassulus ( Thomas, 1904) View in CoL

Broad-headed pipistrelle

Pipistrellus crassulus Thomas, 1904: 206 View in CoL .

Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) crassulus: Hill and Harrison, 1987: 242 View in CoL , 272.

Hypsugo crassulus: Heller et al., 1994: 3 View in CoL , 4, 5.

Pipistrellus (Vansonia) crassulus: Koopman, 1994: 116 View in CoL .

Hypsugo eisentrauti: Volleth and Heller, 1994: 13 View in CoL , 20, 26.

Material examined

SMF 79.441 ( Rwanda ), SMF 79.442 (DR Congo, Kivu region , Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles, 850 m a.s.l.); FMNH 167775- 776, male ( Gabon) , FMNH 108168, male ( Sudan), FMNH 83599, male ( Angola), FMNH 165170-171, male ( Uganda), FMNH 152767, male ( Kenya), BMNH 1904.2.8.1 (holotype), SMF 79441-442 ( DR Congo) .

Comments

The species occurs from Cameroon and Angola eastwards to Kenya ( Fahr, 2013). Chromosome number of a specimen from DR Congo was: 2n = 30, aFN = 56 ( Volleth et al., 2001). This is the smallest species of the genus ( Tables 3 and 4).

FAHR, J. 2013. Pipistrellus crassulus Broad-headed pipistrelle.. The mammals of Africa. Volume IV: Hedgehogs, shrews and bats (M. HAPPOLD and D. C. D. HAPPOLD, eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 800 pp.

HELLER, K. - G., M. VOLLETH, and D. KOCK. 1994. Notes on some verspertilionid bats from the Kivu region, Central Africa (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Senckenbergiana biologica, 74: 1 - 8.

HILL, J. E., and D. L. HARRISON. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilioninae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology), 72: 225 - 305.

KOOPMAN, K. F. 1994. Chiroptera: systematics. Pp. 1 - 217, in Handbook of Zoology. Volume 8: Mammalia, Part 60 (J. NIETHAMMER, H. SCHLIEMANN, and D. STARCK, eds). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, vii + 224 pp.

THOMAS, O. 1904. New bats from British East Africa collected by Mrs. Hinde, and from the Cameroons by Mr. G. L. Bates. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7, 13: 206 - 210.

VOLLETH, M., and K. - G. HELLER. 1994. Phylogenetic relationships of vespertilionid genera (Mammalia: Chiroptera) as revealed by karyological analysis. Zeitschrift fur Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 32: 11 - 34.

VOLLETH, M., G. BRONNER, M. C. GOPFERT, K. - G. HELLER, O. VON HELVERSEN, and H. - S. YONG. 2001. Karyotype comparison and phylogenetic relationships of Pipistrellus - like bats (Vespertilionidae; Chiroptera; Mammalia). Chromosome Research, 9: 25 - 46.

SMF

Germany, Frankfurt-am-Main, Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Vespertilionidae

Genus

Parahypsugo