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Arielulus societatis

  • 1. Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2. Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
  • 3. International College Beijing, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Description

Arielulus societatis [Hill, 1972]

Pipistrellus societatis Hill, 1972: 34; Base Camp, Gunong Benom, Pahang, MALAYSIA, 3˚ 51’N, 102˚11’E, 800ft (Boo-Liat Lim and Hoi-Sen Yong, collector; BM(NH) 1967.1605) [140].

Arielulus societatis [98].

Common English name: Benom Gilded Pipistrelle

Barcode Index Number: There are no DNA barcodes recorded under this name on BOLD.

Remarks: The species closely resembles Arielulus circumdatus Temminck, 1840 but has smaller forearms, post-palatal extension, toothrows and rostrum [140]. Heller and Volleth [53] considered A. societatis and A. circumdatus to be conspecific with the former being the lowland subspecies of the latter but this was refuted by Hill and Francis [173] on the basis of morphological characteristics (see remarks on the genus Arielulus). Both are recognised as distinct species by Simmons [98].

IUCN status: Vulnerable

Recorded at: Selangor: Ulu Gombak [53]; Pahang: Fraser Hill Forest Reserve [56], Gunong Benom [140].

A. societatis has been recorded in primary lowland and hill forests, and secondary forests, and found roosting in a hole of a tree trunk beside a forest stream [11, 14].

Notes

Published as part of Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, pp. 1-65 in PLoS ONE 12 (7) on page 46, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179555, http://zenodo.org/record/4251352

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Scientific name authorship
Hill
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Arielulus
Species
societatis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Arielulus societatis (Hill, 1972) sec. Lim, Ramli, Bhassu & Wilson, 2017

References

  • 140. Hill JE. The Gunong Benom Expedition 1967. 4. New records of Malayan bats, with taxonomic notes and the description of a new Pipistrellus. Bull Br Mus.: Zool. 1972; 23: 21 - 42.
  • 98. Simmons NB. Order chiroptera. In: Wilson DE, Reeder DM, editors. Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore; 2005. pp. 312 - 529.
  • 53. Heller KG, Volleth M. Taxonomic position of " Pipistrellus societatis " Hill, 1972 and the karyological characteristics of the genus Eptesicus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). J Zoolog Syst Evol Res. 1984; 22 (1): 65 - 77.
  • 173. Hill JE, Francis CM. New bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and new records of bats from Borneo and Malaya. Bull Br Mus. 1984; 47 (5): 305 - 329.
  • 56. Mohd-Hanif RM, Nur-Aida MT, Zahirunisa AR, Mohd-Ridwan AR, Abdullah MT. Contribution of regenerated forest in conservation of bats in Peninsular Malaysia. J Trop For Sci. 2015; 27 (4): 506 - 16.
  • 11. Kingston T, Lim BL, Akbar Z. Bats of Krau wildlife reserve. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; 2006.
  • 14. Francis CM. A field guide to the mammals of South-East Asia. New Holland Publishers; 2008.