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.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8910533

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 specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d66ec1da-1e7f-4644-b835-d213a3be056f

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

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005699

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.

Pipistrellus helios

(E. Heller, 1912)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

helios

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:181813

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d66ec1da-1e7f-4644-b835-d213a3be056f

Authority page

3

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8910533

Authority publication

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections

Name usages

Corbet & Hill (1991:76) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)

P. a. helios

(Koopman, 1994)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

helios

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

113

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

Koopman (1994:113) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)

Neoromicia helios

(Simmons, 2005)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

helios

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

  1. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #44921) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #44921) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  4. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:824) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  5. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/44921/22047381) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Afronycteris helios

Monadjem, Demos, D. L. Dalton, Webala, Musila, Kerbis Peterhans, & B. D. Patterson, 2020

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

helios

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

1138

Authority publication

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Name usages

  1. Monadjem, Demos, Dalton, Webala, Musila, Kerbis Peterhans & Patterson (2020:1138) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/51199)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005699) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

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