Plecotus austriacus

Pishkash II (location same as above), 28 September 2005, 1♂ ad. netted at the entrance of a small cave in a limestone gorge. The morphological identification of this species was confirmed by genetic analysis (A. Kiefer, pers. comm.).

(Continued) No previous record of Pl. austriacus (Lamani 1970) has been sufficiently documented to confirm the identification of this species (Sachanowicz and Ciechanowski 2006) and exclude a similar, newly recognized species, Pl. macrobullaris (Spitzenberger et al. 2006; Dietz et al. 2009).