Arielulus drungicus

(Wang Yingxiang, 1982)

Northern Coppery Sprite

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Yangochiroptera
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Vespertilioninae
Tribe : Nycticeiini
Genus : Arielulus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Wang, Y.-x. 1982. New subspecies of the pipistrels (Chiroptera, Mammalian) from Yunnan, China. Zoological Research 3(Suppl.):343-348.

Original name as described

Pipistrellus circumdatus drungicus

Type material

KIZ 73263

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Dilan, Drung Valley, NW Yunnan, China."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Nepal · India · Myanmar · China · Vietnam

Taxonomy notes

split from A. circumdatus; the exact distributional limits between this species and A. circumdatus are not well resolved

Taxonomy notes citation

Zhukova, S.S., Yuzefovich, A.P., Kruskop, S.V. and Son, N.T. 2025. Black-gilded pipistrelles (Arielulus s.str., Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) in eastern Indochina. Mammal Study (in press). doi:10.3106/ms2024-0047

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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