Hipposideros cineraceus Blyth 1853

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 : 13

Hipposideros cineraceus Blyth 1853

Ashy Leaf-nosed Bat (Kelawar Ladam Bulat Terkecil)

Specimens examined (1).—Krau: TTU 108176 ( GenBank EU521618 ) .

Type locality.— Pakistan, Punjab, Salt Range, near Pind Dadan Khan .

Malaysian distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia (all the states) and Borneo (Sabah: Banturong, Kinabalu, Madai, Marudu Bay, Segarong, and Upper Sungai Kuamut; Sarawak: Bako NP, and Jambusan Cave).

Remarks.— Bicolor species group (Corbet and Hill 1992). In Krau and Mt. Penrisen, this species was caught in a harp trap along with H. bicolor . Hipposideros cineraceus has a pinkish noseleaf without lateral leaflets. Bright pinkish pigments can be observed on rostrum and noseleaf. Hipposideros cineraceus is difficult to distinguish using morphology alone as it closely resembles H. ater and H. dyacorum (Hill 1963; Philips 1967; Hill and Francis 1984). Characteristics that differentiate H. cineraceus from H. bicolor are a thickened internarial septum in the middle of the noseleaf that forms a slightly raised bump, and a smaller body size (Francis 2008). Hipposideros cineraceus is also distinguished from H. doriae by the presence of three vertical septa (Francis 2008). Cytochrome- b genetic distances of 4.3% and 8.7% were observed between our specimen from Krau (Peninsular Malaysia) to the sequence of specimens from Thailand (TK 21261; specimen in NSRL) and Krau ( DQ054809 ; sequence in GenBank), respectively. These data are congruent with Francis (2008) in that there are at least two potential species within the H. cineraceus complex.