Kerivoula lenis Thomas, 1916

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 40

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0179555
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4343660
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scientific name	Kerivoula lenis Thomas, 1916
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Kerivoula lenis Thomas, 1916 View in CoL

Kerivoula lenis Thomas, 1916: 416 View in CoL ; Calcutta, Bengal, INDIA (J. T. Pearson, presenter; BM (NH) 1879.11.21.126) [ 178].

Common English name: Indian Woolly Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD: AAD 4874 (3 DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 6 View Fig 6 )

Remarks: K. lenis was previously considered as a subspecies of K. papillosa [ 171] but was later raised as a distinct species [ 98, 176]. Douangboubpha et al. [ 170] reported three distinct clusters of K. papillosa based on NJ analyses at COI mtDNA ( K. papillosa A, Band C) in Thailand of which K. lenis from Peninsular Malaysia (BIN, BOLD:AAD4874) is clustered with K. papillosa C. K. lenis from Peninsular Malaysia has been reported to be 5.33% divergent from K. lenis from Borneoand> 14% divergentfrom K. cf. lenis from Laos [ 4, 169, 170]. Whether the taxon occurring in Peninsular Malaysia represents K. lenis sensu stricto remains to be determined due to the lack of comparative materials from the type locality, India [ 170].

Our NJ analysis ( Fig 6 View Fig 6 ) revealed three clusters of DNA barcodes recorded as K. lenis and K. cf. lenis associated with three BINs, BOLD:AAC9530, BOLD:AAD4873 and BOLD:AAD4874.

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 32] ; Negeri Sembilan: Pasoh Forest Reserve (specimen BM (NH) 1988.46) .

K. lenis has been recorded in understory of forest [ 14].