Myotis bechsteinii (Kuhl, 1817)

Godlevska, L., Rebrov, S., Vorobei, P., Savchenko, M. & Panchenko, P., 2022, Bats Of Central Ukraine: A Synopsis, Zoodiversity 56 (3), pp. 203-232 : 209

Myotis bechsteinii (Kuhl, 1817)

The species is rare. It was revealed recently in seven localities in the southern part of the study region ( fig. 6); first, in 2006 ( Godlevska et al., 2010). The extreme eastern records (southeast of the Podolian Upland, in the north of Odesa Region) correspond to the eastern boundary of species distribution range in Ukraine and in Europe as a whole ( Wright et al., 2018).

The species was recorded hibernating in limestone mines (with the maximum number of 3 individuals per site) and during autumn swarming at the same underground objects. The breeding was first recently confirmed in the region, in two eastern points (Annex).