Hipposideros wollastoni parnabyi Flannery & Colgan, 1993

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Hipposideros wollastoni parnabyi Flannery & Colgan, 1993

Rec. Aust. Mus. 45(1): 49, figs 6–10, table 4. (19 March 1993).

Common name. Wollaston’s Leaf-nosed Bat.

Current name. Hipposideros wollastoni parnabyi Flannery & Colgan, 1993 ; following Simmons (2005).

Holotype. M.15892 by original designation. Female adult, [Field no. FZ80], skull, body in alc., collected from a cave on 9 July 1985 by T. F. Flannery, registered 28 August 1986.

Condition. Cranium and dentaries complete, soft palate retained on skull. Body in alc.: both forearms broken, hole in left wing membrane between 4th and 5th digit, slit on the right side of the head.

Type locality. Cave in the Nong River valley adjacent to Miptigin, Telefomin area (5°11'S 141°35'E), West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Paratypes. (32, by original designation). All collected by T. F. Flannery in the Telefomin and Tifalmin areas, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. M.15893, male; M.15894, female; M.15895, male; M.15896, female; M.15897, male; all five are skulls, bodies in alc., details per holotype. M.15885, female, frozen tissue; M.15886, male, frozen tissue; M.15887, female, (skull exchanged to WAM), frozen tissue; M.15890, male, frozen tissue; M.15891, female, frozen tissue; all five are skulls, bodies in alc., collected 8 July 1985 other details per holotype. M.15888, female, skull, body in alc., collected 10 July 1985, Miptigin, Telefomin Area [5°10'S 141°35'E], West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. M.16721, female, body in alc., collected 11 April 1986, cave 1100 m NW from end of Telefomin Airstrip [5°06'S 141°37'E]. M.17918, male, body in alc., collected 14 April 1987, Inumflatem, Tifalmin valley [5°07'S 141°25'E]. M.17919, female, skull, body in alc., frozen tissue; M.17920, female, body in alc., frozen tissue; M.17921, female, body in alc.; M.17923, male, body in alc.; M.17930, female, body in alc., all collected 10 April 1987, cave on south side of Tifalmin Valley [5°07'S 141°25'E]. M.17917, female, body in alc.; M.17931, female, skull, body in alc., both collected 12 April 1987, Tifalmin. M.17922, female, body in alc., collected 10 April 1987, Mountain side, Tifalmin. M.17925–26, both males, skulls, bodies in alc., both collected 21 April 1990; M.21875, female body in alc.; M.23203, male, body in alc., both collected 14 April 1987, all four from hill on south side of Tifalmin. M.17929, female, skull, body in alc., collected 12 April 1987; M.17924, male body in alc., collected 14 April 1987, both from mountain south of Tifalmin. M.21743, male, skull, body in alc., collected 20 February 1990; M.21744, male, skull, body in alc., and M.21745, female, skull, study skin, [skinned body in alc.], collected 21 March 1990, all three from south of Tifalmin [5°07'S 141°26'E]. M.17927, male, body in alc.; M.17928, female, skull, body in alc., both collected 14 April 1987, Waratem cave on N side of Tifalmin valley.

Comments. Original description indicates a total of 32 paratypes. Flannery & Seri (1990b) describe the type locality and several other collecting localities of the type series. Suspected to be a full species by Helgen (2007) but retained as a subspecies here, pending formal elevation to species.