Kerivoula whiteheadi Thomas, 1894 (?)

Kerivoula whiteheadi Thomas, 1894: 460; Molino, Isabella, northeast Luzaon Island, PHIL- LIPINES (J. Whitehead, collector; BM(NH) 1894.10.9.2) [182].

Common English name: Whitehead’s Woolly Bat

Barcode Index Number: There are no DNA barcodes recorded under this name on BOLD.

IUCN status: Least Concern

Remarks: Chasen [8] listed K. whiteheadi as Kerivoula bicolor (now Kerivoula whiteheadi bicolor) in his “Handlist of Malaysian Mammals”.

Recorded at: The holotype of K. whiteheadi bicolor (BM(NH) 3.2.6.91) which was collected in Biserat, Jalor = Yala, Malay Peninsula, which is now the southern tip of Thailand, is the only record from the mainland [14, 74]. K. whiteheadi may be expected to occur in Peninsular Malaysia [6, 8, 9, 23] based on the type locality but is yet to be documented [169].

K. whiteheadi has been recorded in secondary forests, shrubs and open grasslands, and found roosting in small groups of twenty to thirty individuals among dead leaves by a river [14].