Rhinolophus lepidus

E. Blyth, 1844

Blyth's Horseshoe Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Pteropodiformes
Superfamily : Rhinolophoidea
Family : Rhinolophidae
Genus : Rhinolophus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

J. Asiat, Soc. Bengal, 13: 486.

Original name as described

Rhinolophus lepidus

Type locality

"probably in the vicinity of Calcutta," West Bengal, India.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Palearctic

Country distribution

Uzbekistan · Kyrgyzstan · Afghanistan · Pakistan · India · Nepal · Bhutan? · Bangladesh · Myanmar · China · Thailand · Cambodia · Vietnam

Taxonomy notes

previously included R. refulgens

Taxonomy notes citation

Soisook, P., Karapan, S., Srikrachang, M., Dejtaradol, A., Nualcharoen, K., Bumrungsri, S., ... & Buś, M. M. (2016). Hill forest dweller: a new cryptic species of Rhinolophus in the'pusillus group'(Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Thailand and Lao PDR. Acta Chiropterologica, 18(1), 117-139.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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