The Japanese house bat (''Pipistrellus abramus''), also known as Japanese pipistrelle, is a species of

vesper bat Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat famili ...

. An adult has a body length of , a tail of , and a wing length of . It prefers to roost under the ceiling or inside the roof of old buildings. It is found across East Asia, from China and Taiwan into the Ussuri region, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan.

Further distribution

In China, it is found in

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province and its island and the

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archipelago.

Diet

The species feeds on

beetle Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

s, caddisflies,

flies Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...

hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are parasitic. Females typi ...

ns,

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

s, and true bugs.

Reproduction

Before the young is born, it goes through 33 embryonic stages.

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Comparison of signals produced by ''P. abramus'' and ''M. mystacinus''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q1831672 Pipistrellus Bats of Asia Bats of China Bats of Japan Mammals of East Asia Mammals of Korea Mammals of Russia Mammals of Taiwan Mammals of Hong Kong Taxa named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck Mammals described in 1840

Further distribution

Diet

Reproduction

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