Rhinolophus shameli Tate, 1943

Struebig, Matthew J., Rossiter, Stephen J., Bates, Paul J. J., Kingston, Tigga, Oo, Sai Sein Lin, Nwe, Aye Aye, Aung, Moe Moe, Win, Sein Sein & Mya, Khin Mya, 2005, Results of a recent bat survey in Upper Myanmar including new records from the Kachin forests, Acta Chiropterologica 7 (1), pp. 147-163 : 156

Rhinolophus shameli Tate, 1943

Shamel’s horseshoe bat

New material

Kachin State: Namdee Hill, 11.4.2003, 1 ♂ (MA030411:0).

New records

Mandalay Division: Payataung cave.

Previous records from Myanmar

Sagaing Division are included in Bates et al. (2004 b).

Comments

Measurements are included in Tables 1 and 2. The diagnostic characters by which R. shameli can be distinguished from the morphologically similar R. coelophyllus Peters (1867) are discussed in Bates et al. (2004 b). Its mean call frequency is equal to 74.7 kHz ( Table 3). It compares favourably to the 76.0 kHz call frequency of hand-held individuals from Lao PDR ( Francis and Habersetzer, 1998). This recent record from Kachin State is the first for Myanmar since the first decade of the 20th century ( Bates et al., 2004 b).