Hypsugo savii (Bonaparte 1837)

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 : 491

Hypsugo savii (Bonaparte 1837)

[Vespertilio] savii Bonaparte 1837 , Fauna Ital., Vol. 1: fasc. 20.

Type Locality: Italy, Pisa.

Vernacular Names: Savi's Pipistrelle.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Hypsugo savii subsp. savii Bonaparte 1837

Subspecies Hypsugo savii subsp. austenianus Dobson 1871

Subspecies Hypsugo savii subsp. caucasicus Satunin 1901

Subspecies Hypsugo savii subsp. ochromixtus Cabrera 1904

Distribution: France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, S Switzerland, Austria, E. Hungary, Balkan Countries, Morocco, N Algeria, and the Canary Isls. ( Spain) and Cape Verde Isls through the Crimea and Caucasus, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan to N India and Burma.

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

Discussion: Does not include coreensis , alaschanicus , or velox , see Yoshiyuki (1989) and Horácek et al. (2000). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991), Bates and Harrison (1997), and Horácek et al. (2000). See Horácek et al. (2000) for discussion of subspecies limits. Srinivasulu and Srinivasulu (2001) suggested that austenianus may be a distinct species.