Miniopterus pusillus Dobson 1876

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 521

Miniopterus pusillus Dobson 1876

Miniopterus pusillus Dobson 1876 , Monogr. Asiat. Chiroptera : 162.

Type Locality: India, Nicobar Isls ( NW of Sumatra).

Vernacular Names: Small Long-fingered Bat.

Distribution: India, Nepal, and Burma to Sumatra and Timor ( Indonesia), Philippines, and Moluccas.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Hill (1983), Corbet and Hill (1992), Bates and Harrison (1997), and Kitchener and Suyanto (2002). Philippine records may actually represent australis ; see Heaney et al. (1998). Does not seem to include macrocneme ; see Sanborn and Nicholson (1950), Flannery (1995 a, b), and Bonaccorso (1998), although also see Kitchener and Suyanto (2002), who treated macrocneme as a subspecies of pusillus but did not examine specimens of macrocneme sensu stricto. Some specimens from SE Asia previously identified as schreibersii may represent pusillus ; see Hendrichsen et al. (2001 b). Kitchener and Suyanto (2002) recognized but did not name a subspecies from Alor, Roti, Timor, Ambon, probably Seram, and possibly Sulawesi.