Pipistrellus hesperidus

(Temminck, 1840)

Dusky Pipistrelle

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Vespertilioninae
Tribe : Pipistrellini
Genus : Pipistrellus

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 hesperida

Other common names

African Pipistrelle

Type material

SMF:MAMM:12381

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"Les bords de la Mer rouge vers les côtés d'Abyssinie [= the shores of the Red Sea toward the coast of Ethiopia]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Canary Islands · Cape Verde · Senegal · Liberia · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Niger · Nigeria · Cameroon · Equatorial Guinea · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Uganda · Kenya · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania · Eritrea · Djibouti · Ethiopia · Sudan · South Sudan · Somalia · Angola · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Zimbabwe · Botswana · South Africa · Eswatini · Lesotho · Madagascar

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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