Harpiocephalus harpia

(Temminck, 1840)

Hairy-winged Bat

On a tree, mouth open, teeth visible, Field Cat. No. 980128.7.  Also as Lesser Hairy-winged Bat.
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Location:Laos, Khammouane province, 1 km SW Ban Houana, 17°50'N 104°40'EDate taken:Jan 28, 1998

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Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Yangochiroptera
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Murininae
Genus : Harpiocephalus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Temminck, C.J. 1840. Livraison 3. Pp. 141–272 in Temminck, C.J. 1835-1841. Monographies de Mammalogie. Tome second. C. C. van der Hoek, Leiden, 392 pp.

Original name as described

Vespertilio harpia

Other common names

Lesser Hairy-winged Bat

Type material

RMNH.MAM.13470

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"l'Île de Java [Indonesia] … les caverns de la partie sud du Volcan de Guédé [= caves of the southern part of Mount Gede]." Based on lectotype selection, restricted by A. M. Husson in 1955 to "S.E. side of Mount Gede, W. Java."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Indomalaya · Oceania (Biorealm)

Country distribution

India · Bhutan · Myanmar · China · Taiwan · Laos · Vietnam · Thailand · Malaysia · Indonesia · Philippines

Taxonomy notes

includes mordax as a synonym

Taxonomy notes citation

Son, N.T., Csorba, G., Tu, V.T., Thong, V.D., Wu, Y., Harada, M., Oshida, T., Endo, H. and Motokawa, M. 2015. A new species of the genus Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the Central Highlands of Vietnam with a review of the subfamily Murininae in Vietnam. Acta Chiropterologica 17(2):201-232. doi:10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.001

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 19 names and synonyms.

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