Kerivoula papillosa (Temminck 1840)

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 papillosa (Temminck 1840)

Papillose Woolly Bat (Kelawar Hutan Besar )

Specimens examined (4).—Krau: TK 152020 (GenBank EU188782 ), TTU 108218, TTU 108219, TTU 108183.

Type locality.— Indonesia, Java, Bantam (restricted by Tate, 1940) .

Malaysian distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia (all states) and Borneo.

Remarks.— Kerivoula papillosa was captured using harp traps set along a walking trail. This species is the largest Kerivoula species (FA: 38-49 mm) recorded in this study and this measurement distinguishes it from other species in the genus. Previous literature suggested that K. papillosa might have included K. lenis , which occurs in broad sympatry with K. papillosa ( Vanitharani et al. 2003) . However, K. lenis has smaller body size than K. papillosa ( Vanitharani et al. 2003) and our study documented a genetic distance of 10% between these species in the cyt- b gene. Specimens of K. papillosa have a geographic variation of 3.24% in the cyt- b gene between Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.