Myotis nattereri (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 : 214

Myotis nattereri (Kuhl, 1817)

The species was revealed in three subregions. However, its distribution is irregular. Points of records may be combined in three rather separate patches: southern, in the Dniester subregion and adjacent territories; eastern, in the Central Dnipro zone; and northern, in Polissia ( fig. 12).

The species was found in all seasons of the year. The breeding was revealed in three subregions in seven localities ( Sologor, 1973; Biletskaya et al, 1990; Godlevska et al., 2012; Annex). In the course of the authors’ study, no maternity roosts were found. During the breeding season, juvenile individuals were netted in an abandoned building and at an underground site entrance (Annex); however, animals’ shelters were not localised. Earlier, breeding females with juveniles were found in a tree cavity and in a bird box, within the eastern distribution plot of the species in the study region ( Sologor, 1973; Biletskaya et al., 1990). Solitary males and non-breeding females were found or netted inside overground sections of abandoned buildings, and in underground or semi-underground objects (Annex).

Known winter roosts are only underground.The counted number per one hibernaculum was, commonly, 1–6 individuals. Bigger aggregations were found only in four sites. The maximum counted number of M. nattereri in a hibernaculum was 68 ind.; in the ZMFsubregion ( Godlevska et al., 2016 a).