{{Short description|Genus of bats}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Falsistrellus | authority = Troughton, 1943<ref name="Troughton1943" /> | type_species = ''Vespertilio tasmaniensis'' | type_species_authority = Gould, 1858 }}
'''''Falsistrellus''''' is a genus of vespertilionid family of bats, small predatory flying mammals. They are known from Australia. The poorly researched species have been variously placed by authors, and revised again by studies of their distinct characteristics, consequently the falsistrelles may also be referred to as pipistrelles or false pipstrelles.
== Taxonomy == Common names for the species include '''falsistrelle''' and '''false pipistrelle'''.<ref name="Richards2012" /> The description of the genus was published in 1943 by Ellis Le Geyt Troughton.<ref name="Troughton1943" /><ref name="MSW3" /> Some authorities maintain the earlier treatment of taxa as genus ''Pipistrellus'', while other maintain this as a separate group.<ref name="MSW3" /> One revision of the genus ''Pipistrellus'' resurrected Troughton's genus to accommodate the south-eastern Australian ''Falsistrellus tasmaniensis'' and elevated the south-western Australian population as a new species, ''Falsistrellus mackenziei''.<ref name="Kitchener1986" /> The type species of the genus is ''Vespertilio tasmaniensis'', described by John Gould in 1858, thus the combinations as ''Pipistrellus tasmaniensis'' and ''F. tasmaniensis''.<ref name="MSW3" />
The species outside of Australia have been supposed to be conspecific, and those endemic to the continent separated by a variety of taxonomic treatments. The limited morphological or morphometric analyses lent support to some arrangements, yet remained inconclusive in their implications to ranks of genus and species of associated taxa.<ref name="Görföl2018" /> The phylogenetic study of ''Falsistrellus petersi'' and ''Nyctalus plancyi'' in 2012, then later work on vespertilionid taxa of the region, had implications for the inclusion of Indomalayan species, the ''affinis'' group, in genus ''Falsistrellus'' and a phylogenetic reconstruction (2018) sees them assigned to genus ''Hypsugo''.<ref name="Ruedi2012" /><ref name="Csorba2018" /><ref name="Görföl2018" />
== Species == As workers began to outline the diversity of vespertilionids during twentieth century several taxa were allied as the ''affinis'' group (Tate, 1942. ''et al.''), currently named as ''Falsistrellus affinis'', ''F. petersi'' and the inclusion or omission of species ''F. mordax''. The Australian taxa were named for the type as a ''tasmaniensis'' group, which came to include the western population as ''F. mackenziei''.<ref name="Tate1942" /><ref name="Görföl2018" /> The ASM MammalDiversity Database recognizes two species:<ref>{{Citation|last=Mammal Diversity Database|title=Mammal Diversity Database|date=2021-08-10|url=https://zenodo.org/record/5175993|publisher=Zenodo|access-date=2021-09-19}}</ref> *genus '''''Falsistrellus'''''
*Eastern false pipistrelle or eastern falsistrelle, ''Falsistrellus tasmaniensis''<ref name="Richards2012" /> An Australian endemic, named for Tasmania and found elsewhere *Western false pipistrelle or western falsistrelle, ''Falsistrellus mackenziei''.<ref name="Richards2012" /> This western group is also considered as ''Falsistrellus tasmaniensis'', in treatments combining the remote populations as one species.<ref name="MSW3" />
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Richards2012">{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=G.C. |last2=Hall |first2=L.S. |last3=Parish |first3=S. (photography) |title=A natural history of Australian bats : working the night shift |date=2012 |publisher=CSIRO Pub |isbn=9780643103740 |pages= 159}}</ref> <ref name="MSW3">{{MSW3 Chiroptera | id = 13802186| heading = Genus ''Falsistrellus''}}</ref> <ref name="Troughton1943">{{cite book |last1=Troughton |first1=E |title=Furred animals of Australia |date=1943 |publisher=Angus and Robertson |location=Sydney |page=349 |edition=1st}}</ref> <ref name="Kitchener1986">{{cite journal |last1=Kitchener |first1=D.J. |last2=Caputi |first2=N. |last3=Jones |first3=B. |title=Revision of Australo-Papuan Pipistrellus and Falsistrellus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae) |journal=Records of the Western Australian Museum |date=1986 |volume=12 |pages=435–495 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/222981#page/459/mode/1up |issn=0312-3162}}</ref> <ref name="Ruedi2012">{{cite journal |last1=Ruedi |first1=Manuel |last2=Rickart |first2=Eric A. |last3=Alviola |first3=Phillip |last4=Balete |first4=Danilo S. |last5=Heaney |first5=Lawrence R. |title=Nyctalus plancyi and Falsistrellus petersi (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Northern Luzon, Philippines: Ecology, Phylogeny, and Biogeographic Implications |journal=Acta Chiropterologica |date=1 January 2012 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=265–279 |doi=10.3161/150811012X661602 |issn=1508-1109}}</ref> <ref name="Csorba2018">{{cite journal |last1=Csorba |first1=Gábor |last2=Lim |first2=Burton K. |last3=Eger |first3=Judith L. |last4=Ruedi |first4=Manuel |title=A new genus and species of vespertilionid bat from the Indomalayan Region |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |date=1 February 2018 |volume=99 |issue=1 |pages=209–222 |doi=10.1093/jmammal/gyx156 |pmc=5901079 |language=en |issn=0022-2372 |pmid=29674788}}</ref> <ref name="Görföl2018">{{cite journal |last1=Görföl |first1=Tamás |last2=Csorba |first2=Gábor |title=Integrative taxonomy places Asian species of Falsistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) into Hypsugo |journal=Mammalian Biology |date=November 2018 |volume=93 |pages=56–63 |doi=10.1016/j.mambio.2018.08.004}}</ref> <ref name="Tate1942">{{cite journal |last1=Tate |first1=G.H.H. |authorlink1=George Henry Hamilton Tate |title=Review of the vespertilionine bats : with special attention to genera and species of the Archbold collections. |journal=Bulletin of the AMNH |date=1942 |volume=80 |pages=221–297 |hdl=2246/1783 }}</ref> }}
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Category:Falsistrellus Category:Bat genera Category:Taxa named by Ellis Le Geyt Troughton