Pipistrellus coromandra

• Main Authors: Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Lynx Edicions 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae; Pipistrellus; Pipistrellus coromandra; Indian; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6403403; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6403403

37. Indian Pipistrelle Pipistrellus coromandra French: Pipistrelle de Coromandel / German: Indien-Zwergfledermaus / Spanish: Pipistrela de Coromandel Other common names: Coromandel Pipistrelle, Little Indian Bat Taxonomy. Scotophilus coromandra J. E. Gray, 1838, Pondicherry, Coromandel Coast, India. Pipistrellus coromandra is externally identical to P. tenuis (being only larger in size), but the two species are considered distinct based on mtDNA. Populations in the north-western part of the distribution (Afghanistan and Pakistan) are grayer and distinguishable from the rest of the population and might be a separate subspecies (for which unavailable name afghanus has been applied), but additionalstudies are needed to resolve this. Monotypic. Distribution. NE Afghanistan (Nangarhar Province), N Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces), India, Sri Lanka, Andaman and NicobarIs, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, S China (S Tibet [= Xizang]), Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Descriptive notes. Head-body 34-49 mm, tail 22-39 mm, ear 7-14 mm, hindfoot 3-8 mm, forearm 25-35 mm; weight 3-4-8-3 g. The Indian Pipistrelle is extremely similar to the Least Pipistrelle (P. tenuis), but the Indian Pipistrelle averages larger for all external and cranial measurements (it is morphologically impossible to distinguish between a small Indian Pipistrelle and a large Least Pipistrelle). Dorsal pelage ranges from chestnut to medium to dark brown (being grayer brown in Afghanistan and Pakistan); ventral pelage is paler, with beige-brown or cinnamon-brown tips and darker bases to hairs. Ears, face, and membranes are medium to dark brown and nearly naked. Ears are narrow and broadly rounded; tragus is more or less the same thickness throughout and narrow, with broadly rounded tip. Uropatagium has few hairs next to body and tail, and extends from calcar to nearly tail tip (only extreme tip is free). Penis is short (less than 8 mm). Baculum (3-8 mm long, one specimen) has straight or slightly sinuous shaft, bifurcated tip, ...