Glischropus tylopus (Dobson 1875)

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 : 19

Glischropus tylopus (Dobson 1875)

Common Thick-thumbed Bat (Kelawar Tapak Tangan Putih)

Specimens examined (14).—Monggis: TTU 108229 (GenBank EU521632 ), TTU 108239, TTU 108243, TK 152089, TTU 108244, TTU 108253, TTU 108255, TTU 108256, TTU 108260, TTU 108264; Kubah NP: TTU 108311; Mt. Penrisen: TTU 108368, TTU 108370, TTU 108398.

Type locality.— Malaysia (Borneo), Sabah .

Malaysian distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.

Remarks.—Tribe Pipistrellini (Hoofer and Van Den Bussche 2003) . This species was caught mainly in harp traps set near bamboo trees. Their unique character is the unpigmented white to pink pad on the thumb and sole of foot that may facilitate their movement inside broken bamboo trees. Specimens have dark brown upperparts and pale buffy brown underparts. Low cyt- b genetic distance (<1%) was observed between G. tylopus from different localities in Borneo.