Miniopterus fuliginosus (Hodgson, 1835) —Eastern Bent-winged Bat

Ƒespertilio fuliginosa Hodgson, 1835 p.700; Type locality- Nepal.

Miniopterus schreibersii japoniae Thomas, 1905 p.338; Type locality- Miyazaki, Japan; Kishida & Mori, 1931 p.379; Kuroda, 1938 p.104.

M. schreibersii fuliginosus: Ellerman & Morrison-Scot, 1951 p.183; Won, 1958 p.459; Won, 1967 p.348; Won, 1968 p.127; Yoon, 1992 p.56; Yoon, 2010 p.86; Jo et al., 2012 p.252.

M. schreibersii: Won, 1968 p.127; Han, 1994 p.45; Won & Smith, 1999 p.15; Son, 2001 p.123; Yoon, 2004 p.90; Yoon, 2010 p.86.

Range: The distribution of this species ranges over the southern Korean Peninsula and Jeju Island (Son 2001; Fig. 39).

Remarks: M. fuliginosus was regarded as a subspecies of M. schreibersii and populations in Korea were considered M. schreibersii fuliginosus (Won 1967) . Appleton et al. (2004) and Tian et al. (2004) split M. schreibersii into two distinct species using ND2 and cytochrome b, respectively. Therefore, M. schreibersii became assigned to Europe and M. fuliginosus earmarked for Asia (Šrámek et al. 2013). The closest taxon to M. fuliginosus is M. magnate rather than M. schreibersii (Kruskop et al. 2012) . Although the Subspecies M. f. chinensis occurs in extreme southern Primorye, Russia-Korean border area (Kruskop 2012), the subspecific status of populations in Korea have rarely been studied.

Conservation status: The Red Data Book of North Korea lists this species as ‘Rare’.