Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) rusticus Tomes 1861

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 478

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scientific name	Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) rusticus Tomes 1861
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Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) rusticus Tomes 1861 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861: 35.

Type Locality: Namibia, Damaraland, Olifants Vlei.

Vernacular Names: Rusty Pipistrelle.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) rusticus subsp. rusticus Tomes 1861

Subspecies Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) rusticus subsp. marrensis Thomas and Hinton 1923

Distribution: Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Ethiopia, south to Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, South Africa. A specimen from Liberia has been tentatively reidentified as kuhlii (see Koopman et al., 1995).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Pipistrellus . Includes marrensis; see Koopman (1975). Geographic range reviewed by Kock et al. (2002).