Chinese pipistrelle

Morphological description Life history Distribution Habitat Roost sites and roosting patterns Emergence and flight pattern Foraging behaviour Echolocation calls Status and protection

Morphological Description

· Brown dorsally, pale or whitish ventrally. Blackish face.

· Forearm length 32.9-35.5mm Yunnan and Sichuan. One male weighed 6.2 g, Yunnan. Forearm 33-36 mm according to Smith & Xie (2008).

· Top inner incisors bicuspid.

· Previously known as Pipistrellus pulveratus.

Life history

· Little known

Distribution

The Chinese distribution is shown by dots on the map (as given by Zhang et al. (1997).

Habitat

· Has been found in forested areas (Smith & Xie 2008)..

Roost sites and roosting behaviour

· Has been found roosting in houses (Smith & Xie 2008).

· Emergence and flight pattern

· Little known.

Foraging behaviour

· Not known.

Echolocation calls

· Broadband sweeps ending in a narrowband tail around 32-35 kHz (unpublished).

Status and protection

· There is no estimation of population size for China.

·Listed as RL-NT in China though it nearly met criteria for VU A1bcd. IUCN listed as RL-LR/nt (1994) (Smith & Xie 2008).

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