Arielulus cuprosus (Hill and Francis 1984)

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 : 18

Arielulus cuprosus (Hill and Francis 1984)

Coppery Sprite (Local name not available)

Specimens examined (2).—Mt. Penrisen: TTU 108383 (GenBank EU521631 ), TTU 108397.

Type locality.— Malaysia (Borneo), Sabah, Sepilok (05°52'N, 117°56'E) .

Malaysian distribution.—Recorded from Sabah, Sepilok. A new geographic record was added for Mt. Penrisen and for the state of Sarawak.

Remarks.—Tribe Nycticeiini (Hoofer and Van Den Bussche 2003) . Arielulus cuprosus was caught using harp traps across a walking trail at Kubah NP and in mist nets along the edge of a steep cliff at Mt. Penrisen. This species has long, and thick, upper fur with black bases and red orange (coppery) tips ( Fig. 3b). Most of the published literature and museum databases have classified A. cuprosus in the genus Pipistrellus or Eptesicus . Four specimens referred as “ Pipistrellus cuprosus ” from Kubah NP (four individuals) and Similajau NP (one individual) are in the UNIMAS museum database. Although not examined by us, these are likely to be Arielulus cuprosus and therefore we have included Kubah NP and Similajau NP as part of the distribution of A. cuprosus . This is a new distribution record for Sarawak.