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
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA8793-FF9F-F201-52E3-B3DF02CFDBE0
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Parahypsugo crassulus ( Thomas, 1904 )
status

Treatment

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).

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Chiroptera
Family	Vespertilionidae
Genus	Parahypsugo