A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus

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University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Edward H. Taylor, A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson Volume 1, No. 26, pp. 591-602, 1 figure in text January 20, 1950 University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas PRINTED BY FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1950
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In the past three years, specimens have been obtained in Veracruz (by Dalquest) of each of the southern species. One of these, P. cinnamomeus , previously was known from a single specimen; the other, P. veracrucis , was known only from six specimens which now are lost or misplaced. The results of our study of these recently acquired Mexican specimens constitute our principal contribution in this paper; we have done little more with the material from the United States and Canada than to codify the findings of other mammalogists with respect to the systematic status and geographic distribution.
Genus Pipistrellus Kaup
1829. Pipistrellus Kaup, Skizzirte Entw.-Gesch. u. natürl. Syst. europ. Thierw., Vol. 1, p. 98, Type, Vespertilio pipistrellus Schreber (not seen by us, after Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:87, 1897).
Range in the New World. —In North America from southern Canada to Honduras (47 degrees to 5 degrees North Latitude) and from the Atlantic to the Pacific; not recorded from the West Indies or South America.
Characters. —Size small; tail approximately as long as outstretched leg; ears well developed with prominent tragus; dental formula: i.
; c.