Kerivoula minuta Miller 1898

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 : 21-22

Kerivoula minuta Miller 1898

Least Woolly Bat (Kelawar Hutan Terkecil)

Specimens examined (6).—Krau: TTU 108182 (GenBank EU188774 ); Monggis: TTU 108230, TTU 108234; Kubah NP: TTU 108339; Mt. Penrisen: TTU 108351, TTU 108415.

Type locality.— Thailand, Trang Province, Lay Song Hong .

Malaysian distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia (Kedah: Ulu Muda; Pahang: Lakum, Taman Negara; Perak: Maxwell Hill; and Selangor: Hulu Gombak, Hulu Langat) and Borneo (Sabah: Gomantong, Madai, Pulau Balembangan, Tabin, Tawau, and Witti Range; Sarawak: Lambir NP, and Mt. Penrisen ).

Remarks.— Kerivoula minuta was caught in harp traps across walking trails and less effectively in mist nets across small closed ponds. This species has small ears (9-11.5 mm), dorsal hairs with bases dark-brown for almost one-third of their length, and light brown tips. Kerivoula minuta has a short forearm (FA <30.5 mm), dark wing membranes and uropatagium, and the proximal dorsal half of the uropatagium has sparse, long, golden brown hairs. A new species, K. krauensis (Francis et al. 2007) described from Peninsular Malaysia that occurs in sympatry with K. minuta , can be distinguished by fur coloration (dorsal hairs with dark-brown bases for almost one-third of their length with tips light brown in K. minuta ). Kerivoula minuta also occurs with K. intermedia and is easily misidentified as K. intermedia because the only character to differentiate between them is size. A genetic distance of 4.48% in the cyt- b gene was observed between Peninsular Malaysian and Bornean populations of K. minuta .