Kerivoula hardwickii (Horsfield, 1824)

Hardwicke’s woolly bat

New records

Lampung Province: Kuyung Arang Village, Sukabanjar Forest, Sukaraja Forest, Sumberjaya Village, Way Canguk Forest.

New material

Four individuals were collected as voucher specimens. Lampung Province: Sukaraja Forest, 2♂♂ (MZB 35836, 35872); Sumberjaya Village, 1♀ (MZB 34961); Way Canguk Forest, 1♂ (MZB 35873).

Previous records from Sumatra

North and South Sumatra Provinces (van Strien, 1996); West Sumatra Province: Mentawai Islands (Simmons, 2005); Bengkulu Province: Enggano Island (Francis et al., 2007).

Remarks

This is a small grayish-brown Kerivoula species commonly found in the study area. All individuals were caught between 50–995 m a.s.l. in forest, except two, which were trapped in coffee plantations. Comparing with known brown Kerivoula species on the Sunda Shelf, its forearm length and body mass fall into the range of K. hardwickii (Table 3). It was smaller than K. papillosa, and slightly larger than K. whiteheadi . It overlapped with K. flora and K. lenis in forearm length but can be separated from this species by body mass. (Table 3). In K. whiteheadi the first two upper premolars are elongated, which they are not in K. hardwickii (Yasuma et al., 2003) . In the present study, we assigned these bats to K. hardwickii, which is listed for Sumatra (Suyanto et al., 2002; Simmons, 2005).