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Type: Article
Published: 2014-11-24
Page range: 239–250
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Canines make the difference: a new species of Hypsugo (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Laos and Vietnam

Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13., 1088 Budapest, Hungary.
Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13., 1088 Budapest, Hungary.
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, Canada.
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Caugiay, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H3, Canada.
biodiversity Indomalayan Region pipistrelloid bats taxonomy

Abstract

Hypsugo was regarded as a subgenus of Pipistrellus by many authors, but its generic distinctiveness is now widely accepted. According to recent taxonomic arrangements, nine species are known to occur in Southeast Asia. During the investigation of material recently collected from Lao PDR and Vietnam we identified an additional species and hence describe it here as Hypsugo dolichodon n. sp. It resembles H. pulveratus, but is larger with conspicuously long canines and differs considerably in the DNA barcode gene sequence.