Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) stenopterus Dobson 1875

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 478

Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) stenopterus Dobson 1875

Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) stenopterus Dobson 1875 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875: 470.

Type Locality: Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak.

Vernacular Names: Narrow-winged Pipistrelle.

Distribution: W Malaysia, Sumatra, Riau Arch., N Borneo, Mindanao ( Philippines).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Pipistrellus . Transferred from Nyctalus to Pipistrellus by Medway (1977) following Tate (1942 a). Koopman (1989 a, 1993) suggested that this species might best be returned to Nyctalus , but see Hill and Harrison (1987) and Corbet and Hill (1992), who instead placed it in Hypsugo . Volleth and Heller (1994) presented strong karyotypic evidence that stenopterus is a true Pipistrellus closely related to javanicus and mimus (the latter here considered a junior synonym of tenuis ).