{{Short description|Genus of bats}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Hypsugo savii Trtar cropped.jpg | image_caption = Savi's pipistrelle (''Hypsugo savii'') | taxon = Hypsugo | authority = Kolenati, 1856 | type_species = ''Vespertilio savii'' | type_species_authority = Bonaparte, 1837 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
The genus '''''Hypsugo''''' contains many bats referred to as '''pipistrelles''' or '''pipistrelle bats''' (not to be confused with the genus ''Pipistrellus''). They belong to the family Vespertilionidae or vesper bats. They are primarily found throughout Asia, the Middle East, Mediterranean Europe, and North Africa (including the Canary Islands), with a single (debated) species in Sub-Saharan Africa.
==Species== *''Hypsugo affinis'' <small>Dobson, 1871)</small> (chocolate pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo alaschanicus'' <small>(Bobrinskii, 1926)</small> (Alashanian pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo anthonyi'' <small>(Tate, 1942)</small> (Anthony's pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo arabicus'' <small>(Harrison, 1979)</small> (Arabian pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo ariel'' <small>(Thomas, 1904)</small> (desert pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo cadornae'' <small>(Thomas, 1916)</small> (Cadorna's pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo dolichodon'' <small>(Görföl, 2014)</small> (long-toothed pipistrelle)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0108-hance-long-toothed-pipistrelle.html|title = New bat species has fangs you won't believe|date = 8 January 2015}}</ref> *''Hypsugo imbricatus'' <small>(Horsfield, 1824)</small> (brown pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo kitcheneri'' <small>(Thomas, 1915)</small> (red-brown pipistrelle) * ''Hypsugo lanzai'' <small>Benda, Al-Jumaily, Reiter and Nasher, 2011</small> (Socotran pipistrelle or Lanza's pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo lophurus'' <small>(Thomas, 1915)</small> (Burmese pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo macrotis'' <small>(Temminck, 1840)</small> (big-eared pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo mordax'' <small>(Peters, 1866)</small> (pungent pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo musciculus'' <small>(Thomas, 1913)</small> (mouse-like pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo petersi'' <small>(Meyer, 1899)</small> (Peters's pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo pulveratus'' <small>(Peters, 1871)</small> (Chinese pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo savii'' <small>(Bonaparte, 1837)</small> (Savi's pipistrelle) *''Hypsugo vordermanni'' <small>(Jentink, 1890)</small> (Vordermann's pipistrelle)
A 2019 study reclassified the African species ''H. crassulus'' and ''H. eisentrauti'' (as well as the subspecies ''H. c. bellieri'', which was upgraded to a distinct species) into the newly described genus ''Parahypsugo''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hutterer|first1=Rainer|last2=Decher|first2=Jan|last3=Monadjem|first3=Ara|last4=Astrin|first4=Jonas |name-list-style=amp |date=October 2019|title=A new genus and species of vesper bat from West Africa, with notes on ''Hypsugo'', ''Neoromicia'', and ''Pipistrellus'' (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)|journal=Acta Chiropterologica|volume=21|issue=1|pages=1–22|doi=10.3161/15081109ACC2019.21.1.001|s2cid=208557701|issn=1508-1109|doi-access=free}}</ref> They have since been reclassified into the genus ''Nycticeinops''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ITIS - Report: Nycticeinops|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=945882#null|access-date=2022-02-03|website=www.itis.gov}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Vespertilionidae|V.|V.}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q140365}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Hypsugo Category:Bat genera Category:Taxa named by Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati
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