Pipistrellus hanaki Hulva & Benda 2004

• 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 hanaki; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6567415; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4C3D87E8FFF56A4BFA5B9FC01B2EBE6B

21. Hanak’s Pipistrelle Pipistrellus hanaki French: Pipistrelle de Libye / German: Hanéak-Zwergfledermaus / Spanish: Pipistrela de Libia Other common names: Hanak's Dwarf Bat Taxonomy. Pipistrellus hanaki Hulva & Benda in Benda, Hulva & Gaisler, 2004, “ Libya, Cyrenaica, upper part of the Wadi Al Kuf (the Jabal Akhdar Mts.), ca. 5 km southwest of Al Bayda, Al Jabal Al Akhdar Dist., 32°44°N, 21°41’E. ca. 495 m asl.” Pipistrellus hanaki 1s considered closely related to P. pipustrellus and P. pygmaeus, but it differs from them based on a number of morphological characteristics. Pipustrellushanaki, P. creticus, and P. pygmaeus form a monophyletic clade thatis sister to P. pipistrellus. It previously included P. creticus as a distinct subspecies, but genetic data support its recognition as a distinct species. Monotypic. Distribution. N Cyrenaica region in NE Libya. Descriptive notes. Head-body 41-49 mm, tail 32-39 mm, ear 9-5-13 mm, forearm 30-8-33-4 mm; weight 3-8-6-5 g. Dorsal pelage of Hanak’s Pipistrelle is pale to rusty brown (darkest along back and top of head and becoming lighter along sides); ventral pelage is paler brown; and face, wing membranes, ears, and tragus are dark brown, being slightly paler around eyes and bases of ears. Hind border ofwing membranes is generally paler and more translucent or is not distinct. Ears are rounded at tops, and tragus has rounded tip and curves forward near top. Uropatagium stretches from calcar at ankles to tail tip (tail tip extends ¢.0-5—-1 mm beyond uropatagium), and is the same color as wing membranes. Glans penis is simple and has more or less obvious pale medialstripe dorsally and foreskin covered in grayish brown hair. Baculum is long, thin, bifurcated at both ends, and c.1-8 mm long. Hanak’s Pipistrelle has long forearm and large skull, rostrum is relatively long and broad (broader than in the Crete Pipistrelle, P. creticus), lower molars are nyctalodont, I’ is bicuspid, canines are massive compared with the Common Pipistrelle (P. pipistrellus), and M' is ...