Joffre's bat (''Mirostrellus joffrei''), also known as Joffre's 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 familie ...

in the family Vespertilionidae. It is the only member of the genus ''Mirostrellus''. It is found in

South South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Pro ...

and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

. It was formerly classified in the genus '' Hypsugo'', but phylogenetic studies indicate that it belongs in its own genus, which was described in 2020 as ''Mirostrellus''. The studies also found Anthony's pipistrelle (''H. anthonyi''), a mysterious bat known from a single specimen, collected at Changyinku,

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

, at 7000 ft (2134 m) altitude, to be conspecific with ''M. joffrei''.

References

Vesper bats Mammals of Myanmar Mammals described in 1915 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Bats of Asia Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Vespertilionidae-stub