Hypsugo, Kolenati, 1856

Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2), pp. 255-282 : 266

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).

Figures

FIG. 3. Bayesian consensus topology based on the cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. Tadarida brasiliensis and T. teniotis were designated as outgroup taxa. See Table 3 for complete list of localities and museum and GenBank numbers. Values above branches are Bayesian posterior probabilities