Pipistrellus tenuis (Temminck, 1840). Monogr. Mamm., 2:229.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Sumatra.

DISTRIBUTION: Thailand to New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., Solomon Isis, Vanuatu (= New Hebrides) and N Australia; Cocos Keeling Isl and Christmas Isl (Indian Ocean).

SYNONYMS: adamsi, angulatus, collinus, murrayi, nitidus, orientalis, papuanus, ponceleti, sewelanus, subulidens, wattsi, westralis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pipistrellus. For synonyms see Koopman (1973:115, 1984c). See also McKean and Price (1978:346) and Kitchener et al. (1986).