Hypsugo sp.

New material

ZFMK 2008.0295, ♀, FC, 8 March 2008; ZFMK 2008.0296, ♀, TO, 14 March 2008; ZFMK 2009. 0032, ♀, CMR, 18 December 2008; ZFMK 2009. 0029. ♂, WSV, 12 December 2008 .

We captured seven slightly larger individuals than H. crassulus (discussed above) and assigned them to the genus Hypsugo: two were captured in the canopy net over the creeks at FC, one in a forest net at TO, three over the creek in the WSV and one over the creek in gallery forest at CMR. They ranged in body mass from 7 to 14 g. One female (ZFMK 2008.0295) carried a single embryo of 17 mm crown-rump length. In the molecular analysis (Fig. 3), our four specimens grouped with a specimen from Mount Nimba (DM 13225) tentatively labelled Neoromicia sp. 1 (Monadjem et al., 2013 b) forming a sister group to H. crassulus . These specimens also have the “much reduced, small” upper anterior premolar described by Hill and Harrison (1987: 244) as a characteristic of the subgenus Hypsugo . Thus, we tentatively assign them to an unidentified species of Hypsugo .

Conservation status

The conservation status of this species has not yet been evaluated (IUCN, 2015).