Afronycteris helios

(E. Heller, 1912)

Heller's Serotine

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Heller, E. 1912-11-04. New races of insectivores, bats, and lemurs from British East Africa. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 60(12):1-13.

Original name as described

Pipistrellus helios

Other common names

Helios Pipistrelle Bat · Heller's Pipistrelle · Samburu Pipistrelle

Type material

USNM:MAMM:181813

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Merelle Water, 30 miles (= 48 km) south Mount Marsabit, Kenya.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

South Sudan · Somalia · Uganda · Kenya · Tanzania · Djibouti?

Taxonomy notes

moved from Neoromicia to the recently described Afronycteris, although further genetic studies will be needed to cement this arrangement

Taxonomy notes citation

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

Not Evaluated

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