Kerivoula pellucida (Waterhouse 1845)

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 : 22

Kerivoula pellucida (Waterhouse 1845)

Clear-winged Woolly Bat (Kelawar Kepak Jernih)

Specimen examined (1).— Krau: TTU 108213 (GenBank EU188788 ) .

Type locality.— Philippines .

Malaysian distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.

Remarks.— Kerivoula pellucida was caught using a harp trap set across a forest trail. Several unique characters were observed in this species: orange to pinkish facial coloration, glandular swelling on the tail of male specimens, and translucent wings. Caution needs to be taken when determining the degree of translucency, as it is best done by comparison between specimens of each species. Kerivoula pellucida has a genetic distance of 1.29% in the cyt- b gene between individuals from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.