Greater bamboo bat
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The greater bamboo bat (Tylonycteris robustula) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It has a wide range within Southern and Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.[1] They have been found at elevations up to Script error: No such module "convert"..[2]
Taxonomy
The species was initially described by Oldfield Thomas in 1915, in On bats of the genera Nyctalus, Tylonycteris, and Pipistrellus.[3]
It formerly had two subspecies, Tylonycteris robustula malayana and Tylonycteris robustula robustula. A 2017 paper reanalyzed T. malayana as a full species.[1][2]
Description
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The greater bamboo bat is insectivorous.[4] A study in Guangxi, China found that their diet consisted of the orders Hymenoptera, Diptera (flies), and Coleoptera (beetles), as well as trace amounts of Orthoptera, Trichoptera (caddisflies), and Ephemeroptera (mayflies).[5] They roost in loose groups of up to 40 in bamboo forests, within the hollows inside the bamboo shoots, called internodes.[2][6] They access the internodes through small holes bored in the bamboo by beetles.[7][8] A study in Selangor, Malaysia found that the bats used the bamboo species Gigantochloa scortechinii.[8]
The greater bamboo bats mate in November and December and give birth around April or May, usually to twins. Young are typically weaned in June.[1][6]
Predators include the paradise tree snake, which can extract them from within their bamboo roosts.[9]
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- Tylonycteris
- Bats of Southeast Asia
- Bats of Borneo
- Bats of China
- Bats of India
- Bats of Indonesia
- Bats of Malaysia
- Bats of the Philippines
- Mammals of Brunei
- Mammals of Cambodia
- Mammals of Singapore
- Mammals of Myanmar
- Mammals of Thailand
- Mammals of Timor
- Mammals of Vietnam
- Mammals described in 1915
- Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
- Taxonomy articles created by Polbot