Pipistrellus ponceleti Troughton 1936

• Main Authors: Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy, Divljan, Anja
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae; Pipistrellus; Pipistrellus ponceleti; Bougainville; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7555788; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7555788

Pipistrellus ponceleti Troughton, 1936a Rec. Aust. Mus. 19(5): 351. (7 April 1936). Common name. New Guinea Pipistrelle. Current name. Pipistrellus angulatus ponceleti Troughton, 1936a; following Simmons (2005). Regarded as a valid subspecies by Flannery (1995c) and Bonaccorso (1998) but as a junior synonym of P. angulatus angulatus (Peters, 1880) by Kitchener et al. (1986). Holotype. M.5798 by original designation. Male, skull, study skin, original collector’s number 365, collected and presented by the Rev. J. B. Poncelet. Collection date not given in register, registered 27 December 1934. Condition. Cranium missing zygomatic arches and upper left canine, auditory capsules are detached; dentaries complete. Study skin in fair condition: fur missing from much of abdominal area, probably from fur slip; tear in right wing membrane at distal end of digit 4, and tear in left wing membrane between digit 5 and body. The study skin is tied to cardboard with its ventral side visible. Type locality. “Buin, Sth Bougainville Id”, North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea. Paratypes. (5, 4 by subsequent determination). Same locality and collector as holotype: M.5598, male, body in alc.; M.5599 (by original designation), female (allotype), skull, study skin, and M.5600, female, body in alc., all three registered 2 July 1934; M.5799, male, skull, body in alc., and M.5807, male, body in alc., both registered 27 December 1934. Comments. Troughton indicates a type series of six specimens including the holotype, but gives registration numbers only for the holotype and allotype. Four specimens are labelled as paratypes on specimen labels and in the M Register in what appears to be Troughton’s handwriting. M.5807 is not labelled as a paratype, either on the specimen label or register, but is assumed to be the sixth specimen of Troughton’s series and regarded as a paratype —it was registered on the same day as the holotype and is the only specimen located with matching dates. In his original account, Troughton refers to a specimen ...