Hipposideros larvatus (Horsfield 1823)

FAISAL ALI ANWARALI KHAN, VICKI J. SWIER, SERGIO SOLARI, PETER A. LARSEN, BESAR KETOL, WAHAP MARNI, SIVANATHAN ELLAGUPILLAY, MAKLARIN LAKIM, MOHAMMAD TAJUDDIN ABDULLAH & ROBERT J. BAKER, 2008, USING GENETICS AND MORPHOLOGY TO EXAMINE SPECIES DIVERSITY OF OLD WORLD BATS: REPORT OF A RECENT COLLECTION FROM MALAYSIA, Occasional Papers of the Museum 281, pp. 1-30 : 16

Hipposideros larvatus (Horsfield 1823)

Intermediate Leaf-nosed Bat (Kelawar Ladam Bulat Besar )

Specimens examined (4).—Bako NP: TTU 108274 (GenBank EU521622 ), TTU 108276, TTU 108281, TTU 108282.

Type locality.— Indonesia, Java .

Malaysia distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia (all states) and Borneo ( Sarawak: Bako NP, Fairy Cave, Jambusan, Kubah NP, Kuching, Lubok Simpon, Mt. Pueh, and Tanjung Datu NP).

Remarks.— Larvatus species group (Corbet and Hill 1992). Hipposideros larvatus was caught in harp traps placed across trails and rock crevices. This is the only species collected in our study that has three lateral leaflets ( Payne et al. 1985). Taxonomic reviews from morphological and genetic datasets indicate that more than one genetic phylogroup occurs within this species ( Kitchener and Maryanto 1993; Thabah et al. 2006). A genetic distance of 3.5% in the cyt- b gene was observed between a specimen from China ( DQ888672 ) and our specimen from Borneo.