Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) javanicus Gray 1838

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 : 475

Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) javanicus Gray 1838

Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) javanicus Gray 1838 , Mag. Zool. Bot., 2: 498.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Java.

Vernacular Names: Javan Pipistrelle.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) javanicus subsp. javanicus Gray 1838

Subspecies Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) javanicus subsp. babu Thomas 1915

Subspecies Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) javanicus subsp. camortae Miller 1902

Subspecies Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) javanicus subsp. meyeni Waterhouse 1845

Subspecies Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) javanicus subsp. peguensis Sinha 1969

Distribution: E Afganistan, N Pakistan, N, C India, SE Tibet ( China), Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, through SE Asia to Lesser Sunda Isls and the Philippines; perhaps Australia. Reports of this species from Cambodia cannot be confirmed (Kock, 2000 a).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc) as P. javanicus ; Data Deficient as P. peguensis .

Discussion: Subgenus Pipistrellus . Includes meyeni; see Laurie and Hill (1954), Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Hill (1967), and Koopman (1973). Includes camortae; see Soota Chaturverdi (1980) and Corbet and Hill (1992), but also see Das (1990). Includes babu and peguensis ; see Corbet and Hill (1992), Kock (1996), and Bates and Harrison (1997), but also see Das (1990) and Sinha (1999). Does not include paterculus and abramus ; see Hill and Harrsion (1987), Corbet and Hill (1992), Bates et al. (1997), and Hendrichsen et al. (2001 b). For many years this species was known as tralatitius Horsfield, but Laurie and Hill (1954) regarded this name as indeterminable.