Scotoecus hirundo

(de Winton, 1899)

Dark-winged Lesser House Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

de Winton, W.E. 1899-11-01. On mammals collected by Lieut.-Colonel W. Giffard in the northern territory of the Gold Coast. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)4(23):353-359.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19209098

Original name as described

Scotophilus hirundo

Other common names

White-bellied Lesser House Bat · Hinde's Lesser House Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1899.6.15.8

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/5b14bf84-225b-4786-8028-c97c028c108f https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/b20ed957-909b-40fe-bd10-574a3d366ca2

Type locality

"Gambaga [Ghana], 1300 feet [= 396 m]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Senegal · Mali · Sierra Leone · Ghana · Benin · Nigeria · Cameroon · Central African Republic · South Sudan · Sudan · Ethiopia · Uganda · Kenya · Somalia · Tanzania

Taxonomy notes

sometimes considered to included S. albigula and S. hindei, although recent publications have retained them and they are tentatively retained here

Taxonomy notes citation

Happold, M. 2012. Scotoecus hirundo. In: D. C. D. Happold and M. Happold (eds), The Mammals of Africa, Academic Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. · Monadjem, A., T. C. Demos, D. L. Dalton, P. W. Webala, S. Musila, J. C. K. Peterhans and B. D. Patterson (2021). A revision of pipistrelle-like bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in East Africa with the description of new genera and species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(4): 1114–1146.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005645

Country distribution map

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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. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Scotophilus hirundo

(de Winton, 1899)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

hirundo

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1899.6.15.8

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/5b14bf84-225b-4786-8028-c97c028c108f https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/b20ed957-909b-40fe-bd10-574a3d366ca2

Authority page

355

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19209098

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Scotoecus artinii

De Beaux, 1923

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

artinii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MSNM (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

98

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57811171

Authority publication

Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Scotoecus hirundo

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

hirundo

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

72

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:72) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:202) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  4. Happold & Happold (2013:669) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #20055) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #20055) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:761) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005645) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/20055/22025420) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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