Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774)

Godlevska, L., Rebrov, S., Vorobei, P., Savchenko, M. & Panchenko, P., 2022, Bats Of Central Ukraine: A Synopsis, Zoodiversity 56 (3), pp. 203-232 : 218

Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774)

Note. P. pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus were recognised as separate species in late 1990s ( Barratt et al., 1997; Mayer & von Helversen, 2001). Correspondingly, in the publications on bats of Ukraine before 2000, this pair of species was mentioned as P. pipistrellus ( fig. 18 , D). We identified species of this pair of pipistrelles by morphological characters (on Dietz & von Helversen, 2004). In some cases the identification was verified by recording echolocation signals during bats’ release. In the case with P. pygmaeus , acoustic observations were taken into consideration (this method is not reliable enough for P. pipistrellus s. s. because of the significant overlapping of its echolocation signals with those in P. nathusii и P. kuhlii ).

The occurrence of P. pipistrellus s. s. was confirmed recently only in the south of the study area, in the DRS-subregion ( fig. 18 ). There, the breeding of the species was confirmed (Annex), and its hibernation (in mines) was recorded ( Godlevska et al., 2012). In the rest of the study area, only P. pygmaeus was recorded.

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Fig. 18. Record localities of Pipistrellus pygmaeus (A, B), P. pipistrellus s. s. (C), and P. pipistrellus s. l. (D).