The genus ''Hypsugo'' contains many
bats 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 con ...
''). They belong to the family
Vespertilionidae
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 ...
or vesper bats. They are primarily found throughout Asia, the
Middle East
The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...
,
Mediterranean Europe
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, and
North Africa
North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...
(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''
(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 joffrei''
(Thomas, 1915) (Joffre's pipistrelle)
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Hypsugo kitcheneri''
(Thomas, 1915) (red-brown pipistrelle)
* ''
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
''Nycticeinops'' is a genus of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It contains the following species:
* Bellier's serotine, ''Nycticeinops bellieri''
* Broad-headed serotine, ''Nycticeinops crassulus''
* Eisentraut's serotine, ''Nyc ...
''.
References
Bat genera
Taxa named by Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati
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