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--> ORDER CHIROPTERA
--> FAMILY Vespertilionidae
--> SUBFAMILY Vespertilioninae
--> TRIBE Pipistrellini
--> GENUS Pipistrellus
--> SUBGENUS Pipistrellus
SPECIES Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) rusticus
Author: | Tomes, 1861. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861: 35. | Common Name: | Rusty Pipistrelle | Type Locality: | Namibia, Damaraland, Olifants Vlei. | Distribution: | Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Ethiopia, south to Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, South Africa. A specimen from Liberia has been tentatively reidentified as kuhlii (see Koopman et al., 1995). | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Pipistrellus. Includes marrensis; see Koopman (1975). Geographic range reviewed by Kock et al. (2002). |
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