First record of Hipposideros ater Templeton, 1848 from Andhra Pradesh, India with a description of a new subspecies

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) We report the occurrence of Hipposideros ater Templeton, 1848 for the first time from Andhra Pradesh, India and describe a new subspecies collected from the Nallamala Hills, Eastern Ghats. The new subspecies has been compared with its nearest allies and it differs from the known subspecies H. a. ater and H. a. nicobarulae in having narrower palate, smaller braincase and U-shaped anterior margin of mesopterygoid.