Pipistrellus pipistrellus

• 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 pipistrellus; Enano; Rus’
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6578072; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6578072

18. Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus French: Pipistrelle commune / German: Zwergfledermaus / Spanish: Murciélago enano Other common names: Common Pipistrelle Bat, Small House Bat Taxonomy. Vespertilio pipistrellus Schreber, 1774, France. Pipistrellus as currently defined is paraphyletic with a Western and an Eastern clade. The Western clade includes all European and African species (FP. pipistrellus, P. pygwaeus,- P cveticus, P hanali, P nathusé, P. maderensis, P. kuhlu, P. hesperidus, P. rus-Yicus, P. nanulus, P. inexspeciatus, P. ae, P. permixtus, and P. raceyr); the Eastern clade includes all Asiatic species (FP. dhofarensis, P. abramus, P. endou, P. sturdeei, P. javanicus, P. cooomandra, P. ceylonicus, P. tenuis, P. paterculus, P. stenopterus, P. minahassae, P. collinus, P. papuanus, P. angulatus, P. wattsi, P. westralis, and P. adamst), although this is a rather broad definition because not all currently recognized species are sequenced. The Eastern clade seems to be closely related to Glischropus; the Western clade is closer to Nyctalus with Vansonia (previously included in Pipistrellus), sister to the entire clade. During the 1980s and the 1990s, P. pipistrellus was split into P. pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus based on acoustic surveys, in which two different frequency bands were detected. Because of recent taxonomic changes, their distributions and conservation status are still debated. All records and phylogenetic analyses support the hypothesis that P. pupistrellus expanded into Europe from the Mediterranean during the Holocene. There seems to be three major genetic lineages in P. pipistrellus that might represent 2-3 distinct species: one throughout Europe and Asia, one in North Africa, and the other in Corsica and Sicily, which is sister to the North African part. Two subspecies recognized. Subspecies and Distribution. P.p.pipistrellusSchreber,1774—mostofEurope(fromIrelandandIberianPeninsulaEtoRussia),Turkey,Levant,Caucasus,andNAfrica(MtsofMorocco,Algeria,Tunisia,andLibya). P. p. aladdin ...