North Wallacean Pipistrelle

North Wallacean PipistrelleIn July 2025, a small bat found in a building at Jinguang Temple Provincial Nature Reserve in Dali, Yunnan, China, was identified as H. petersi using morphology, measurements, and mitochondrial DNA. Earlier records were from Borneo and the Philippines.What does it look like?The specimen collected in China was described as a small vesper bat; identification used morphology and morphometrics together with mitochondrial DNA.How does it live?In July 2025, a small bat found in a building at Jinguang Temple Provincial Nature Reserve in Dali, Yunnan, China, was identified as H. petersi using morphology, measurements, and mitochondrial DNA. Earlier records were from Borneo and the Philippines.The specimen in the study was collected from a building inside Jinguang Temple Provincial Nature Reserve.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.