Emballonura alecto (Eydoux and Gervais 1836)

Small Asian Sheath-tailed Bat (Kelawar Teng-Teng Ceteng Kecil)

Specimens examined (4).—Kubah NP: TTU 108335 (GenBank EU521625), TTU 108336, TTU 108337; Mt. Penrisen: TTU 108405.

Type locality.— Philippines, Luzon, Manila .

Malaysian distribution.— This species is known from three localities (Sabah: Poring, and Tawau Hill; Sarawak: Bako NP). Our specimen from Mt. Penrisen is a new geographic record.

Remarks.— Emballonura alecto was caught using hand nets in a culvert at Kubah NP and with a harp trap near the forest edge at Mt. Penrisen. Specimens are uniformly dark brown to black with long grayish fur. There is morphological overlap between E. alecto and E. monticola, however a short gap between the first and second upper premolars is present in E. alecto and absent in E. monticola (Corbet and Hill 1992) . There is less than 1% genetic divergence within our E. alecto samples from Borneo. Comparison of our E. alecto cyt- b gene sequences from Borneo to E. monticola from Thailand (EF584233) resulted in a genetic distance of 9.2%. Specimen TTU 108405 (19 August 2006) was post lactating.