Kuhl's pipistrelle
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Vespertilionidae
Genus:	Pipistrellus
Species:	P. kuhlii
Binomial name
Pipistrellus kuhlii Kuhl, 1817
Global range of P. kuhlii (red)
Synonyms
Vespertilio kuhlii Kuhl, 1817

Kuhl's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) is a species of vesper bat that occurs in large areas of North Africa, Southern Europe and West Asia. It lives in temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, rural gardens, and urban areas.^[1] It is a rare and infrequent visitor to Britain, usually only detected by sound-recordings.^{[citation needed]} A specimen held at the Palestine Natural History Museum is the first record of the species to be "ensnared by a plant in the Arab world".^[2]

Taxonomy

Kuhl's pipistrelle was first named in 1817, under the name Vespertilio kuhlii, in a work by Heinrich Kuhl entitled Die deutschen Fledermäuse ("The bats of Germany").^[3] The specific epithet was chosen by Johann Natterer, who had collected the first specimens, and commemorates Kuhl; under the rules of the ICZN, however, Kuhl himself is regarded as the authority, as the first to report the name.^[4]

The population of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Sudan was formerly known as Pipistrellus deserti.^[5] This taxon is now considered to be a junior synonym of Pipistrellus kuhlii.^[6]

References

External links

• Media related to Pipistrellus kuhlii at Wikimedia Commons

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