Hypsugo

The genus Hypsugo contains many bats referred to as pipistrelles or pipistrelle bats. They belong to the family Vespertilionidae or vesper bats.

Hypsugo
Savi's pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Vespertilionidae
Tribe:	Vespertilionini
Genus:	Hypsugo Kolenati, 1856

Species

• Hypsugo alaschanicus (Bobrinskii, 1926) (Alashanian pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo anthonyi (Tate, 1942) (Anthony's pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo arabicus (Harrison, 1979) (Arabian pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo ariel (Thomas, 1904) (desert pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo cadornae (Thomas, 1916) (Cadorna's pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo dolichodon (Görföl, 2014) (long-toothed pipistrelle)[1]
• Hypsugo imbricatus (Horsfield, 1824) (brown pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo joffrei (Thomas, 1915) (Joffre's pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo kitcheneri (Thomas, 1915) (red-brown pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo lanzai Benda, Al-Jumaily, Reiter and Nasher, 2011 (Lanza's pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo lophurus (Thomas, 1915) (Burmese pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo macrotis (Temminck, 1840) (big-eared pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo musciculus (Thomas, 1913) (mouse-like pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo pulveratus (Peters, 1871) (Chinese pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo savii (Bonaparte, 1837) (Savi's pipistrelle)
• Hypsugo vordermanni (Jentink, 1890) (Vordermann's pipistrelle)

A 2019 study reclassified the African species H. crassulus and H. eisentrauti (as well as the subspecies H. c. bellieri, which was upgraded to a distinct species) into the new-described genus Parahypsugo.[2]

References

1. http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0108-hance-long-toothed-pipistrelle.html
2. Hutterer, Rainer; Decher, Jan; Monadjem, Ara & Astrin, Jonas (October 2019). "A new genus and species of vesper bat from West Africa, with notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)". Acta Chiropterologica. 21 (1): 1–22. doi:10.3161/15081109ACC2019.21.1.001. ISSN 1508-1109.