Hypsugo

Hypsugo
Hypsugo savii
Systematics
Order : Bats (chiroptera) Superfamily : Smooth-nosed (Vespertilionoidea) Family : Smooth-nosed (Vespertilionidae) Subfamily : True smooth-nosed (Vespertilioninae) Tribe : Vespertilionini Genre : Hypsugo
Scientific name
Hypsugo
Kolenati , 1856

Hypsugo is a species of bat from the smooth-nosed family(Vespertilionidae). She was of the genus recently dwarf bats ( Pipistrellus separated) and includes more than 21 species, of which one lives, the Alps bat ( hypsugo savii ) in Europe.

General

The animals of this genus are rather small, their head body length is around 40 to 60 millimeters. Their head is characterized by their short, wide snout and ears, which are also short. The color of the thick fur varies from sand-colored to dark brown.

These bats are common in Eurasia , Africa, and North America . They live in a wide variety of habitats, from deserts to rainforests. They prefer crevices in houses, caves or hollow tree trunks as sleeping places. They are considered to be agile fliers who prey on their food, mainly insects, primarily in flight.

The species

There are over 20 types:

• Hypsugo alaschanicus
• Hypsugo anchietai is native to central Africa.
• Hypsugo anthonyi lives in a small area in northern Myanmar . Due to the destruction of its habitat, it is critically endangered.
• The Arabian pipistrelle ( Hypsugo arabicus ) is found in Oman and Iran .
• Hypsugo ariel lives in Israel , Egypt , Sudan , Saudi Arabia and Yemen .
• Hypsugo bodenheimeri
• Hypsugo cadornae is common from India to Thailand .
• Hypsugo dolichodon lives in Laos and Vietnam.
• Hypsugo hesperus is native to western North America.
• Hypsugo imbricatus lives in the Philippines and Indonesia .
• Hypsugo inexpectatus is common in central Africa.
• Hypsugo kitcheneri isendemicto Borneo .
• Hypsugo lanzai
• Hypsugo lophurus lives in southern Myanmar and Thailand.
• Hypsugo macrotis
• Hypsugo musciculus is common in central Africa.
• Hypsugo pulveratus lives in southern China and Thailand.
• The alpine bat ( Hypsugo savii ) inhabits large parts of Eurasia and North Africa.
• Hypsugo stenopterus lives in Southeast Asia.
• Hypsugo vorermanni

In 2019, Rainer Hutterer , Jan Decher, Ara Monadjem and Jonas Astrin established the closely related genus Parahypsugo from Africa. Parahypsugo happoldorum was identified as a type species and described as a new species. The iron Traut's pipistrelle (formerly hypsugo eisentrauti ) and the West African short head bat (formerly hypsugo crassulus ) were also placed in the new genus. Parahypsugo bellieri (formerly Pipistrellus eisentrauti bellieri ) was raised to species status.

literature

• Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World . Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 ISBN 0-8018-5789-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Görföl, Tamás, Gábor Csorba, Judith L. Eger, Nguyen T. & Son CM Francis. 2014. Canines make the Difference: A New Species of Hypsugo (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Laos and Vietnam. Zootaxa . 3887 (2): 239-250. DOI: 10.11646 / zootaxa.3887.2.6
2. Jump up ↑ Rainer Hutterer, Jan Decher, Ara Monadjem, Jonas Astrin: A New Genus and Species of Vesper Bat from West Africa, with Notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Acta Chiropterologica, 21 (1), 2019, pp. 1-22. doi : 10.3161 / 15081109ACC2019.21.1.001

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