Mosquito bat
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The mosquito bat ( Pipistrellus pygmaeus , Syn . : Pipistrellus mediterraneus (Cabrera, 1904) used.) Is a species of bat . It is a twin of the pipistrelle bat .
It differs from the piped bat in that it is slightly smaller and thus represents the smallest Central European bat species. Their echolocation sounds are also not at the usual 45 kHz, but have an end frequency of around 55 kHz.
It was not until 1999 that the British researchers Jones and Barrett proposed a taxonomic separation of mosquito bat and pipebat. Since March 2003, due to nomenclature rules of precedence, the author of the first description and the year of the first description of Pipistrellus pygmaeus (Leach, 1825) have to be used.
nutrition
It got its name because it mainly feeds on mosquitoes .
Occurrence in Germany
The largest nursery of the kind in Germany to date - with around 1300 animals - was discovered in July 2014 in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germersheim-Sondernheim in the former Stubenrauch brickworks - now a museum.
Systematics
The mosquito bat belongs to the genus of pipistrelle bats ( Pipistrellus ), which includes around 35 species worldwide. Four other species live in Europe, the rough- skinned bat ( Pipistrellus nathusii ), the pipistrelle bat ( Pipistrellus pipistrellus ), the white-rimed bat ( Pipistrellus kuhlii ) and the Madeiran bat ( Pipistrellus maderensis ).
The population in Cyprus was established in 2007 as a separate subspecies Pipistrellus pygmaeus subsp. cyprius .
threat
The mosquito bat is under nature protection . In large areas of its range, it is much rarer than the pipistrelle, but in some limited areas it is even considered to be quite common. In Greece it is even generally more common than the pipebat. In the forestry sector, for example, the mosquito bat is endangered by the decline in alluvial forests, and in settlements by the loss of housing during construction-changing work.
On the Red List of the FRG, the species is listed in level "D - deficit data situation", in the Red List of the IUCN 2016 it is classified as "Least Concern".
literature
- Christian Dietz, Otto von Helversen , Dietmar Nill: Handbook of the bats of Europe and Northwest Africa. Biology, characteristics, endangerment , pages 290–295 (1st edition), Verlag Kosmos, Stuttgart 2007 (new standard work, scientific research), ISBN 3-440-09693-9 , ISBN 978-3-440-09693-2
- Wolf-Dieter and Ursula Burkhard: "Another bat species in Thurgau: The mosquito bat (Pipistrellus pygmaeus, LEACH 1825)"; Communications of the Thurgauische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft - Volume 62, Pages 75 to 91, Frauenfeld 2007, ISBN 3-9522601-5-0 .
- Friederike Spitzelberger: The mammal fauna of Austria ; Green series of the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management - Volume 13, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-85333-063-0
Web links
- Information and photos about the mosquito bat
- Mosquito bat at the NABU Schleswig-Holstein
- Pipistrellus pygmaeus onthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
- State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia LANUV NRW 2010
- Bats lack shelter NZZ , Zurich 19 February 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ P. pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus; neotypes designated. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 60 (1) March 2003, pp. 85-87 Opinion 2028 (Case 3073), online
- ↑ One million mosquitoes for the mosquito bat Naturschutz aktuell NABU-Pressedienst Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed on August 26, 2014.
- ↑ Petr Benda, Vladimír Hanák, Ivan Horáček, Pavel Hulva, Radek Lučan, Manuel Ruedi : Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean. Part 5. Bat fauna of Cyprus: review of records with confirmation of six species new for the island and description of a new subspecies . Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 71: 71–130, 2007 ( online ; PDF; 3.6 MB)