Hipposideros larvatus
- 1. Guangdong Entomological Institute, 105 Xingang Xilu, Haizhu, Guangzhou, 510260 China
- 2. School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS 8 1 UG, United Kingdom
- 3. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 - 5 Beichen Xilu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101 China
- 4. School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, 92019 New Zealand
Description
Hipposideros larvatus (Horsfield, 1823)
Intermediate leaf-nosed bat
FA — 55.5–64.1 mm, mass — 12.1–24.5 g. A common bat species in south China that was captured in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan. Echolocation call frequencies differ according to site. The bats in Hainan on average emitted higher call frequencies (FMAXE — 86.5–87.8 kHz) and had longer forearms (61–64 mm) than those in Guangxi (84.8–88 kHz, FA — 55.5–61.6 mm), and Guangdong (FMAXE — 83.2–85.6 kHz, FA — 67.8– 62.2 mm). Bats in Yunnan emitted even lower call frequencies (79.2–84 kHz) and had forearm lengths measuring between 57.5–64.1 mm. Kingston et al. (2000) reported that H. larvatus in Malaysia calls at 100.0 kHz (FA — 58.5 mm), and Thabah et al. (2006) claimed that in one cave on north-east India, bats identified as H. larvatus emitted calls with FMAXE values at either 85 kHz or 98 kHz, leading the authors to propose the name Hipposideros khasiana for bats of the 85-kHz phonic type. Chinese H. larvatus was phylogenetically closest to Malaysian bats (100–102 kHz), but might deserve raising to specific status given the considerable difference in call frequency (Thabah et al., 2006).
Previous records from China: Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan (Zhang, 1997; Wang, 2003).
Ecological Notes
Found in subtropical areas of southern China where it can occur in large numbers (roosts of several hundred individuals) in caves. They were also found in the shelter (Fangkong Cave 2) around the abandoned airport, Ningming County.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hipposideridae
- Genus
- Hipposideros
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Horsfield
- Species
- larvatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hipposideros larvatus (Horsfield, 1823) sec. Zhang, Jones, Zhang, Zhu & Parsons, 2009
References
- KINGSTON, T., G. JONES, A. ZUBAID, and T. H. KUNZ. 2000. Resource partitioning in rhinolophoid bats revisited. Oecologia, 124: 332 - 342.
- THABAH, A., S. J. ROSSITER, T. KINGSTON, S, ZHANG, S. PAR- SONS, K. M. MYA, A. ZUBAID, and G. JONES. 2006. Genetic divergence and echolocation call frequency in cryptic species of Hipposideros larvatus s. l. (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) from the Indo-Malayan region. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 88: 119 - 130.
- ZHANG, Y. Z. (ed.). 1997. Distribution of mammalian species in China. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 280 pp.
- WANG, Y. X. (ed.). 2003. A complete checklist of mammal species and subspecies in China: a taxonomic and geographic reference. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 394 pp.