Hipposideros armiger (Hodgson, 1835)

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 : 18

Hipposideros armiger [ 8].

Common English name: Greater Roundleaf Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD: AAA 8161 (2 DNA barcodes are from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 4 ).

Remarks: DNA barcodes recorded as H. armiger are associated with four BINs, BOLD: ABX5993, BOLD:AAA8161, BOLD:AAA8163, and BOLD:AAA8164. The BIN, BOLD: AAA8161 contains DNA barcodes from across Southeast Asia including Peninsular Malaysia (ABBSI001-04 and ABBSI002-04) whereas the remaining BINs appear to be more geographically restricted ( Fig 4 ). Four subspecies were recognised by Simmons [ 98]: H. a. armiger (type locality: Nepal), H. a. tranninhensis (type locality: Vietnam), H. a. terasensis (type locality: Taiwan), and H. a. fujianensis (type locality: China). Whether each BIN represents a subspecies or a distinct species and whether BOLD:AAA8161 represents H. armiger sensu stricto remains to be determined.

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 11], Tasik Chini [ 43], Kenong [ 100]; Kedah: Pulau Langkawi [ 23], Ulu Muda Forest Reserve [ 57]; Perak: Bukit Jerneh Cave and Tumang Lembing Cave [ 30], Bayor River-Rantau Panjang [ 49]; Negeri Sembilan: Pasoh Forest Reserve [ 45]; Perlis: Wang Kelian State Park [ 50]; Kelantan: Gunung Reng [ 62]; Pulau Pinang: Bukit Panchor [ 100].

H. armiger roosts in large chambers in caves, sometimes in mixed colonies with other species [ 11, 23]. Individuals have been reported roosting solitarily on bertam plants and in crevices of large boulders in forest [ 11, 14].

Figures

Fig 4. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in family Hipposideridae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia,VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia, CH = China, CM = Cambodia. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g004