Pipistrellus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Pipistrellus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Pipistrellus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae and subfamily Vespertilioninae. The name of the genus is derived from the Italian word pipistrello, meaning "bat" (from Latin vespertilio "bird of evening, bat").
The size of the genus has been considerably reduced as a result of work during the 1990s and 2000s, with genera such as Arielulus, Hypsugo, Falsistrellus, Neoromicia, Parastrellus, Perimyotis, Scotozous, and Vespadelus being split off. Still, molecular evidence suggests the genus is not monophyletic. Several other genera in the subfamily Vespertilioninae have also been merged with Pipistrellus in previous classifications. Species in the genus may be referred to as "pipistrelles" or "pipistrelle bats", though these terms are also used for species now placed in other genera, such as the western pipistrelle (Parastrellus hesperus) and eastern pipistrelle (Perimyotis subflavus) of North America. Species of the Southern Hemisphere separated to genus Falsistrellus are sometimes referred to as false pipistrelle or falsistrelle.
They are somewhat distinguished from their much larger relatives, the noctule bats Nyctalus by their weak, fluttery flight reminiscent of a butterfly, though a few species are more direct in their flight.
...Pipistrellus in languages:
- Bokmål
- Pipistrellflaggermus
- Chinese
- 伏翼屬
- Chinese
- 家蝠屬
- Dutch
- Dwergvleermuizen
- English
- Pipistrelles
- Finnish
- piippalepakot
- French
- Pipistrelles
- German
- Zwergfledermäuse
- Lithuanian
- Šikšniukai
- Modern Greek
- Πιπιστρέλος
- Polish
- karlik
- Russian
- Нетопыри
- Ukrainian
- Нетопир
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Pipistrellus abramus
- Pipistrellus adamsi
- Pipistrellus aero
- Pipistrellus angulatus
- Pipistrellus ceylonicus
- Pipistrellus collinus
- Pipistrellus coromandra
- Pipistrellus creticus
- Pipistrellus dhofarensis
- Pipistrellus endoi
- Pipistrellus hanaki
- Pipistrellus hesperidus
- Pipistrellus inexspectatus
- Pipistrellus javanicus
- Pipistrellus kuhlii
- Pipistrellus maderensis
- Pipistrellus minahassae
- Pipistrellus murrayi
- Pipistrellus nanulus
- Pipistrellus nathusii
- Pipistrellus papuanus
- Pipistrellus paterculus
- Pipistrellus permixtus
- Pipistrellus pipistrellus
- Pipistrellus pygmaeus
- Pipistrellus raceyi
- Pipistrellus rusticus
- Pipistrellus simandouensis
- Pipistrellus stenopterus
- Pipistrellus sturdeei
- Pipistrellus tenuis
- Pipistrellus wattsi
- Pipistrellus westralis































































































































































