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A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus
BY
E. RAYMOND HALL and WALTER W. DALQUEST
University of Kansas PublicationsMuseum of Natural History
Volume 1, No. 26, pp. 591-602, 1 figure in text
January 20, 1950
University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1950
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Edward H. Taylor,
A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson
Volume 1, No. 26, pp. 591-602, 1 figure in text
January 20, 1950
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A Synopsis of the American Bats
of the Genus Pipistrellus
By
E. RAYMOND HALL AND WALTER W. DALQUEST
Four nominal species of the genus Pipistrellus are currently recognizedin North America. They are Pipistrellus subflavus (F. Cuvier)of eastern North America, Pipistrellus hesperus (H. Allen) of westernNorth America, Pipistrellus veracrucis (Ward) from Veracruz,Mexico, and Pipistrellus cinnamomeus Miller from Tabasco, Mexico.
In the past three years, specimens have been obtained in Veracruz(by Dalquest) of each of the southern species. One of these, P.cinnamomeus, previously was known from a single specimen; theother, P. veracrucis, was known only from six specimens which noware lost or misplaced. The results of our study of these recentlyacquired Mexican specimens constitute our principal contribution inthis paper; we have done little more with the material from theUnited States and Canada than to codify the findings of other mammalogistswith respect to the systematic status and geographic distribution.
Study of the available specimens reveals that there are only twospecies, Pipistrellus hesperus and Pipistrellus subflavus; Pipistrellusveracrucis proves to be only a subspecies (geographic race) of P.subflavus, and Pipistrellus cinnamomeus proves to be a species ofanother genus, Myotis (see Hall and Dalquest, page 583 of thisvolume).
1829. Pipistrellus Kaup, Skizzirte Entw.-Gesch. u. natürl. Syst. europ.Thierw., Vol. 1, p. 98, Type, Vespertilio pipistrellus Schreber (not seenby us, after Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:87, 1897).
Range in the New World.—In North America from southern Canada toHond