**2.6. Family Vespertilionidae**

Thirteen bat species belonging to seven genera were recorded from Malakand division. These included Hodgson's bat *Myotis formosus* (Hodgson, 1835), Eastern barbastelle *Barbastella leucomelas* (Cretzschmar, 1830/1831), Asiatic greater yellow house bat *Scotophilus heathii* (Horsfield, 1831), Asiatic lesser yellow house bat *Scotophilus kuhlii* (Leach, 1821, Serotine *Eptesicus serotinus* (Schreber, 1774), Botta's Serotine *Eptesicus bottae* (Peters, 1869), common pipistrelle *Pipistrellus pipistrellus* (Schreber, 1774), Javan pipistrelle *Pipistrellus javanicus* (Gray, 1838), Coromandel pipistrelle *Pipistrellus coromandra* (Gray, 1838), Least pipistrelle *Pipistrellus tenuis* (Temminck, 1840), Dormer's bat *Pipistrellus dormeri* (Dobson, 1875), Desert yellow bat *Scotoecus pallidus* (Dobson, 1876), and Schreibers' long-fingered bat *Miniopterus fuliginosus* (Kuhl, 1819).

*2.6.3. Asiatic greater yellow house bat Scotophilus heathii (Horsfield, 1831)*

*2.6.4. Asiatic lesser yellow house bat Scotophilus kuhlii (Leach, 1821)*

categorizes the species as "Least Concern" [17].

(N34° 29.778′ E71° 43.501′) in Malakand district.

*2.6.5. Serotine Eptesicus serotinus (Schreber, 1774)*

38.553′ E72° 01.749′) in Malakand division.

*2.6.6. Common pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774)*

Concern" [17].

of Threatened Animals.

with Chitral [56].

*Scotophilus heathii* is geographically distributed in Afghanistan to South China, including Hainan Island, south to Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma. In Pakistan, the species is common and widespread throughout the Indus plains. It has been collected from Kohat (NWFP), Islamabad city, Multan, Lahore and Sialkot districts (Punjab), Kashmoor, Sakkur, Jacobabad, Mirpur Sakro, Dadu, Landi, Malir, Karachi (Sindh) [2, 8, 18, 33, 50]. IUCN

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Twenty-two bats were captured through mist net in Head Koper (N34°24.454′ E71°50.061′), Bazdara Bala (N34° 30.355′ E72°04.692′), Malakand Top (N34°34.007′ E71°55.736′), Batkhela

It is uncommon in Pakistan with a very restricted distribution. The species is present only in southern Sindh [2]. Geographically, this species is distributed in Bangladesh, Pakistan to Taiwan, south to Sri Lanka, Burma, Cambodia, W Malaysia, Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara (Indonesia), southeast to Philippines and Aru Islands (Indonesia) [15]. The species is categorized as "Least

Two bats were captured through mist net in Head Koper (N34° 24.454′ E71° 50.061′) and Kot

This species is rare in Pakistan. The only male specimen was collected by Roberts [2] from Dunga gali in Murree Hills. Walker and Molur [16] declare this species to be Data Deficient, Near Threatened (C.A.M.P. Report, 2002), and Least Concern according to IUCN [17] Red List

*E. s. pashtomus* was described as a new subspecies by Gaisler [7] in his account of bats collected in Afghanistan from Jalalabad district. The zygomatic width of *pashtomus* being 14.5 mm while Felten [56] in describing a further collection of bats from Afghanistan also assigned *E. serotinus* to the subspecies *pashtomus* which was collected from eastern Afghanistan close to the border

Fifteen bats were captured through mist net in Head Koper (N34° 24.454′ E71° 50.061′), Bakrai (N34° 23.939′ E71° 52.202′), Astanadaro Kalay (N34° 24.913′ E71° 49.466′), Barcharai Daim (N34° 33.737′ E71° 44.872′), Amlok Dara (N34° 43.773′ E71° 52.502′), and Pull Saokai (N34°

The taxonomic status of this bat species is unknown from Pakistan. The species is distributed in British Isles, S Denmark, W Europe to the Volga and Caucasus, Morocco; Greece, Turkey,

(N34°36.903′ E71°57.768′), and Daim (N34°36.647′ E71°47.704′) in Malakand district.

#### *2.6.1. Hodgson's bat Myotis formosus (Hodgson, 1835)*

This is geo-graphically widespread but little-known bat [13]. It is apparently common in South Korea [52]. *Myotis formosus* ranges from Afghanistan to China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Philippines and Indonesia. Bates and Harrison [13] collected specimens of *M. formosus* from India and Tibet. Five bats were captured through mist net in Wach Khwar (N34° 58.104′ E72° 28.270′), Barcharai Daim (N34° 33.737′ E71° 44.872′), Chinai Ghaz (N35° 00.850′ E72° 03.439′), and Mattak (N34° 59.066′ E72° 02.907′) in Malakand division.
