The genus ''Hypsugo'' contains many
bat
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s referred to as pipistrelles or pipistrelle bats (not to be confused with the genus ''
Pipistrellus
''Pipistrellus'' is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae and subfamily Vespertilioninae. The name of the genus is derived from the Italian word , meaning "bat" (from Latin "bird of evening, bat").
The size of the genus has been co ...
''). They belong to the family
Vespertilionidae
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or vesper bats. They are primarily found throughout Asia, the
Middle East
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The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...
,
Mediterranean Europe
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, and
North Africa
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(including the
Canary Islands
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), with a single (debated) species in
Sub-Saharan Africa
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.
Species
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'' Hypsugo affinis'' Dobson, 1871) (chocolate pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo alaschanicus
The Alashanian pipistrelle (''Hypsugo alaschanicus'') is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in China, South Korea, Mongolia, Japan, and Russia.
It is assessed as Least-concern species, least-concern by the International ...
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(Bobrinskii, 1926) (Alashanian pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo anthonyi''
(Tate, 1942) (Anthony's pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo arabicus''
(Harrison, 1979) (Arabian pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo ariel''
(Thomas, 1904) (desert pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo cadornae''
(Thomas, 1916) (Cadorna's pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo dolichodon''
(Görföl, 2014) (long-toothed pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo imbricatus''
(Horsfield, 1824) (brown pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo kitcheneri''
(Thomas, 1915) (red-brown pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo lanzai''
Benda, Al-Jumaily, Reiter and Nasher, 2011 (Socotran pipistrelle or Lanza's pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo lophurus''
(Thomas, 1915) (Burmese pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo macrotis''
(Temminck, 1840) (big-eared pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo mordax''
(Peters, 1866) (pungent pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo musciculus''
(Thomas, 1913) (mouse-like pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo petersi''
(Meyer, 1899) (Peters's pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo pulveratus''
(Peters, 1871) (Chinese pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo savii''
(Bonaparte, 1837) (Savi's pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo vordermanni''
(Jentink, 1890) (Vordermann's pipistrelle)
A 2019 study reclassified the African species ''
H. crassulus'' and ''
H. eisentrauti'' (as well as the subspecies ''
H. c. bellieri'', which was upgraded to a distinct species) into the newly described genus ''
Parahypsugo''. They have since been reclassified into the genus ''
Nycticeinops''.
References
Bat genera
Taxa named by Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati
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