Authority citation: Seabra, A.F. de. 1900-02. Sobre um caracter importante para a determinação dos generos e especies dos "microchiropteros" e lista das especies d'este grupo existentes nas collecções do Museu Nacional (continuação). Jornal de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes (2)6(21):16-35.
Authority publication link: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3081921?urlappend=%3Bseq=316%3Bownerid=9007199272966453-330
Original name as described: Vesperugo Anchieta
Nominal names: anchietae (de Seabra, 1900) [as emended] | anchietae (de Seabra, 1900) [justified emendation] | anchietai (Ellerman, Morrison-Scott, & Hayman, 1953) [incorrect subsequent spelling]
Other common names: Anchieta's Bat|Miombo Pipistrelle|Anchieta's Pipistrelle
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Chiroptera -- Family: Vespertilionidae -- Subfamily: Vespertilioninae -- Tribe: Vespertilionini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: BMNH:Mamm:1906.1.3.1, MNHN 1900-538
Type locality: Cahata, Angola.
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Angola (AGO) | Democratic Republic of the Congo (COD) | Zambia (ZMB) | Botswana (BWA)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is listed in MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status:
Species-specific notes: previously included populations now attributed to N. hlandzeni; moved from Hypsugo to Neoromicia; sometimes spelt 'anchieta', but 'anchietae' is considered a justified emendation and is retained despited not matching the original description (see Kock, 2001 and Grubb, 2004)
Citation: Kock, D. 2001. Rousettus aegyptiacus (E. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1810) and Pipistrellus anchietae (Seabra, 1900), justified emendations of original spellings. Acta Chiropterologica 3(2):245-256.|Grubb, P. 2004. Controversial scientific names of African mammals. African Zoology 39(1):91-109.|Fasel, N. J., Mamba, M. L., & Monadjem, A. (2020). Penis morphology facilitates identification of cryptic African bat species. Journal of Mammalogy, 101(5), 1392-1399.|Monadjem, A., T. C. Demos, D. L. Dalton, P. W. Webala, S. Musila, J. C. K. Peterhans and B. D. Patterson (2021). A revision of pipistrelle-like bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in East Africa with the description of new genera and species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(4): 1114–1146.|Taylor, P. J., Strydom, E., Richards, L., Markotter, W., Toussaint, D. C., Kearney, T., ... & Monadjem, A. (2022). Integrative taxonomic analysis of new collections from the central Angolan highlands resolves the taxonomy of African pipistrelloid bats on a continental scale. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlac071.
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