Pipistrellus aero Heller 1912
- Dataset
- Vespertilionidae
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Chiroptera
- family
- Vespertilionidae
- genus
- Pipistrellus
- species
- Pipistrellus aero
activity
Activity patterns. No information.
biology_ecology
Habitat. Montane forest habitats (on Mount Gargues, Kenya) and mosaic of evergreen brushland, secondary Acacia (Fabaceae) wooded grassland (in other localities in Kenya), and Afromontane vegetation (at Marsabit Lake, Kenya) at elevations of 1200 - 2700 m.
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
breeding
Breeding. No information.
conservation
Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. Virtually nothing is known on ecology of the Mount Gargues Pipistrelle, and it is known only from a few records in Ethiopia and Kenya. Additional sampling and research are needed to fully assess its conservation status.
description
Descriptive notes. Head-body 40 - 49 mm, tail 32 - 34 mm, ear 10 - 15 mm, hindfoot 5 - 10 mm, forearm 31 - 34 mm; weight 4 - 5 g. Pelage of the Mount Gargues Pipistrelle is dense and silky. Dorsum is dark brown, with reddish tinge; venteris slightly paler. Ears are black and relatively short; tragus is about one-third the ear height and narrow, and it has concave anterior margin, smoothly convex posterior margin, and rounded tip. Wings are very dark brown, without white hind border. Uropatagium is very dark brown and extends from well-developed calcar to more or lesstail tip (except extreme tip). Baculum is strongly curved and bifurcated at tip and base. Skull is of moderate size for an African Pipistrellus; braincase is relatively high and moderate in breadth; interorbital region is relatively narrow; rostrum is relatively long and broad; forehead region is moderately concave; upper incisors are conical and unicuspid; I ” is less than one-half the height of I?; P * is minute, displaced lingually, and generally not visible above gum; and lower molars are nyctalodont.
discussion
This species is monotypic.
distribution
Distribution. Recorded from three localities in W & C Ethiopia (Beko River, Yamboshi River, and Chercher Mts) and three localities in W Kenya (Marsabit Lake, Mt Gargues, and Ngong); there is an apparent record from Tana Lake in NW Ethiopia, but it does not seem to represent this species (most likely P. hesperidus hesperidus).
food_feeding
Food and Feeding. No information.
materials_examined
“ from summit of Mount Garguez [= Gargues], Mathews Range, altitude 7,000 ft. [= 2134 m], British East Africa [= Kenya]. ”
Name
- Homonyms
- Pipistrellus aero Heller 1912
- Common names
- Aerial Pipistrelle Bat in الانكليزية
- Kenya Pipistrelle in الانكليزية
- Mount Gargues Pipistrelle Bat in الانكليزية
- Mount GarguesPipistrelle in الانكليزية
- Mount-Gargues-Zwergfledermaus in الألمانية
- Pipistrela in language.
- Pipistrela de Kenya in language.
- Pipistrelle du Kenya in الفرنسية