Tylonycteris pachypus (Temminck, 1840)

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 50

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0179555
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4343623
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scientific name	Tylonycteris pachypus
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Tylonycteris pachypus View in CoL [Temminck, 1840]

Vespertilio pachypus Temminck, 1840: 217 View in CoL ; Bantam, west Java, INDONESIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [ 82].

Tylonycteris pachypus View in CoL [ 8].

Common English name: Lesser Bamboo Bat

Barcode Index Number: DNA barcodes recorded as T. pachypus are associated with two BINs, BOLD: AAC 1209 and BOLD: AAC 1210, but there are no DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia.

Remarks: The BIN, BOLD:AAC1210 contains DNA barcodes recorded as T. pachypus and a single DNA barcode recorded as T. robustula (ABBSI217-10) (S9 Fig). We suspect the DNA barcode, ABBSI217-10 is a case of mis-identification as T. pachypus and T. robustula are differ in body size and coloration. Simmons [ 98] recognised five subspecies: T. p. pachypus (type locality: Java, Indonesia), T. p. aurex (type locality: India), T. p. fulvidus (type locality:

Burma = Myanmar), T. p. meyeri (type locality: Philippines) , and T. p. bhakti (type locality: Lombok Island , Indonesia).

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 11, 41], Tasik Bera Forest Reserve [ 56];

Perak: Temengor Forest Reserve [ 46, 47], Royal Belum State Park [ 66]; Selangor: Bukit Kutu Wildlife Reserve [ 51], Ulu Gombak [ 52, 53, 54], Air Hitam Forest Reserve [ 55]; Kelantan: Air Panas-Gua Musang [ 61], Gunung Reng and Gua Musang [ 62], Gunung Stong State Park [ 67];

Johor: Labis Forest Reserve [ 100] .

T. pachypus roosts in small colonies in live standing bamboo stems, and enters the internodes through slits created by stem-boring beetle larvae [ 11, 14, 23].