Myotis himalaicus, Saikia & Chakravarty & Csorba & Laskar & Ruedi, 2025

Saikia, Uttam, Chakravarty, Rohit, Csorba, Gabor, Laskar, Mostaque Ahmed & Ruedi, Manuel, 2025, Taxonomic reassessment of bats from the Western Himalayas, India and description of a new species of the Myotis frater complex (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), Zootaxa 5644 (1), pp. 1-78 : 3

Abstract................................................................................................... 4 Introduction................................................................................................ 4 Materials and methods....................................................................................... 5 Study area................................................................................................. 5 Field sampling.............................................................................................. 6 Morphological studies........................................................................................ 7 DNA sequencing and phylogenetic reconstructions................................................................. 8 Echolocation call analysis.................................................................................... 11 Locality records and ecological notes........................................................................... 12 Results.................................................................................................. 12 Species accounts........................................................................................... 14 Family: Pteropodidae ....................................................................................... 14 1. Sphaerias blanfordi ( Thomas, 1891) ......................................................................... 14 Family: Molossidae ......................................................................................... 14 2. Tadarida insignis (Blyth, 1862) ............................................................................. 14 Family: Rhinolophidae ...................................................................................... 16 3. Rhinolophus affinis Horsfield, 1823 ......................................................................... 16 4. Rhinolophus nippon Temminck, 1835 ........................................................................ 16 5. Rhinolophus lepidus Blyth, 1844 ............................................................................ 18 6. Rhinolophus pearsonii Horsfield, 1851 ....................................................................... 19 7. Rhinolophus perniger Hodgson, 1843 ........................................................................ 20 8. Rhinolophus macrotis Blyth, 1844 .......................................................................... 21 9. Rhinolophus sinicus Thomas, 1915 .......................................................................... 23 Family: Hipposideridae ...................................................................................... 23 10. Hipposideros armiger Hodgson, 1835 ....................................................................... 23 Family: Vespertilionidae ..................................................................................... 24 11. Barbastella darjelingensis (Hodgson, 1855) .................................................................. 24 12. Eptesicus pachyomus ( Tomes, 1857) ........................................................................ 26 13. Hypsugo affinis ( Dobson, 1871) ........................................................................... 29 14. Hypsugo savii (Bonaparte, 1837) ........................................................................... 30 15. Mirostrellus joffrei (Thomas, 1915) ......................................................................... 31 16. Myotis blythii ( Tomes, 1857) .............................................................................. 34 17. Myotis sp. ............................................................................................. 34 Myotis himalaicus sp. nov. Ruedi, Chakravarty, Saikia & Csorba.................................................... 36 18. Myotis sicarius Thomas, 1915 ............................................................................. 43 19. Myotis muricola (Gray, 1864) ............................................................................. 43 20. Myotis nipalensis ( Dobson, 1871) .......................................................................... 44 21. Myotis longipes Dobson, 1873 ............................................................................. 45 22. Murina cf. aurata Milne–Edwards, 1872 .................................................................... 46 23. Murina cyclotis Dobson, 1872 ............................................................................. 47 23. Murina huttonii ( Peters, 1872) ............................................................................ 48 24. Nyctalus leisleri (Kuhl, 1817) ............................................................................. 50 25. Pipistrellus babu Thomas, 1915 ............................................................................ 50 26. Plecotus homochrous Hodgson, 1847 ....................................................................... 52 27. Plecotus wardi Thomas, 1911 .............................................................................. 54 28. Submyotodon caliginosus ( Tomes, 1859) .................................................................... 57 Family: Miniopteridae ...................................................................................... 59 29. Miniopterus fuliginosus Hodgson, 1835 ..................................................................... 59 Discussion................................................................................................ 59 Echolocation calls.......................................................................................... 60 Acknowledgement......................................................................................... 61 Online supplementary information............................................................................. 61 References................................................................................................ 61 Appendix................................................................................................. 70 APPENDIX B: (Continued).................................................................................. 72