Animalz

Kerivoulinae

  • Kerivoula
  • Phoniscus
  • Stehlinia
  • Painted Woolly Bat Kerivoula picta
    Painted Woolly Bat
    Photo: Abu Hamas · CC BY-SA 4.0

    This small bat has bright orange fur and black wings. It hunts spiders and insects while flying through cluttered spaces close to the ground.

  • Damara Woolly Bat Kerivoula argentata
    Damara Woolly Bat
    Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Flanders J, Frick WF, Nziza J, Nsengimana O, Kaleme P, Dusabe MC, Ndikubwimana I, Twizeyimana I, Kibiwot S, Ntihemuka P, Cheng TL, Muvunyi R, Webala P (2022) Rediscovery of the critically endangered Hill`s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hilli) and other new records of bat species in Rwanda. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e83546. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e83546 · CC BY 4.0

    This small bat has long, dense fur that can help conceal it among leaves or in bird nests. The southern African assessment reports it from riverine forest and other moist habitats, where it eats insects.

  • Papillose Woolly Bat Kerivoula papillosa
    Papillose Woolly Bat
    Photo: Gabor Csorba; Chris Smeenk; Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee · CC BY 3.0

    This bat has tiny projections on its wing membrane. It flies through the lower forest at night and catches flying insects.

  • Whitehead's Woolly Bat Kerivoula whiteheadi

    Whitehead's woolly bat is a small bat with a broad distribution in the Philippines. Its reddish-brown back and banded hairs are distinctive.

  • Clear-winged Woolly Bat Kerivoula pellucida

    The clear-winged woolly bat is a small bat with pale fur and nearly translucent wing membranes. It occurs on islands in Southeast Asia, with records of roosting in dead leaves.

  • Small Woolly Bat Kerivoula intermedia

    This woolly bat was surveyed in lowland tropical rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia. A morphological comparison says it is slightly larger than the closely related Kerivoula minuta, with size serving as a main distinction.