Philetor brachypterus (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 : 47-48

Philetor brachypterus [Temmick, 1840]

Vespertilio brachypterus Temmick, 1840: 215 , pl. 53; Padang district , Sumatra, INDONESIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [ 82].

Philetor brachypterus [ 23].

Common English name: Narrow-winged Brown Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAF6860 (1 DNA barcode from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 6 )

Remarks: DNA barcodes recorded as P. brachypterus are associated with two BINs, BOLD: AAF6860 and BOLD:AAF6859. Hill and Francis [ 173] reported that specimens from Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia are similar in size, while Corbet and Hill [ 9] commented that size variation occurs within the species. Our NJ analysis suggested that the DNA barcode from Peninsular Malaysia (BM434-04) may represents a cryptic species ( Fig 6 ), however, we retain the name P. brachypterus in our checklist pending further research.

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Johor: Endau-Rompin National Park (BM434-04 was collected in year 2001 [ 4]); Perak: Unspecified [ 23]; Selangor: Unspecified [ 23], Ulu Gombak [ 53, 54].

P. brachypterus roosts in tree hollows and has been recorded in primary and secondary forests [ 14].

Figures

Fig 6. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in family Vespertilionidae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia,VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia, JV = Java Indonesia, CH = China, CM = Cambodia. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g006