Harpiocephalus harpia (Temminck, 1840)

Lesser hairy-winged bat

New record Lampung Province: Way Canguk Forest.

Previous records from Sumatra

Only listed for Sumatra (van Strien, 1996; Suyanto et al., 2002; Simmons, 2005), but no locality records given.

Remarks

A single male was collected by previous researchers from Way Canguk Forest (MZB 31483). This finding confirms the record of this large species of Murininae in Sumatra. It is a widespread species from India to Southeast Asia, China, and Taiwan (Simmons, 2005), but is rare across all its range. We do not consider it as Harpiocephalus mordax, because recent evidence suggests that H. mordax is an invalid name based on a female H. harpia (Matveev, 2005; Matveev and Csorba, 2007).