Great evening bat

Great evening bat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Ia
Species:
I. io
Binomial name
Ia io
Thomas, 1902[2]
Subspecies
  • I. i. io Thomas, 1902
  • I. i. peninsulata Soisook et al., 2017[3]
Geographic range
Synonyms[4][5]
  • Ia longimana Pen, 1962
  • Parascotomanes beaulieui Bourret, 1942

The great evening bat (Ia io) is the largest bat in the vesper bat family (Vespertilionidae) and the only living species in the genus Ia. It is common to Eastern and Southeastern Asia (China, India, Laos, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam),[1] mainly living in areas with limestone caves at altitudes of 400–1,700 metres (0.25–1.06 mi).[6] Their roost sites have been found both near the cave entrances and up to 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) within the cave systems.[7]

  1. ^ a b Jiang, T.L.; Feng, J. (2020). "Ia io". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T10755A21993508. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T10755A21993508.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Thomas, Oldfield (1902). "On Two new Mammals from China". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7. 10 (56): 164–166. doi:10.1080/00222930208678653.
  3. ^ Soisook, Pipat; Sribuarod, Kriangsak; Karapan, Sunate; Safoowong, Mongkol; Billasoy, Sawwalak; Thong, Vu Dinh; Chang, Yang; Gong, Lixin; Lin, Aiqing; Sztencel-Jabłonka, Anna; Bogdanowicz, Wiesław; Bates, Paul J. J. (2017). "The first record of Ia io Thomas, 1902 (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the Sundaic Subregion, with a description of a new subspecies from peninsular Thailand". Zootaxa. 4344 (3): 573–588. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4344.3.8. PMID 29245626.
  4. ^ Topál, Gy. (1970). "The First Record of Ia io Thomas, 1902 in Vietnam and India, and Some Remarks on the Taxonomic Position of Parascotomanes beaulieui Bourret, 1942, Ia longimana Pen, 1962, and the Genus Ia Thomas, 1902 (Chiroptera: Verspertilionidae)" (PDF). Opuscula Zoologica (Budapest). 10 (2): 341–347.
  5. ^ Csorba, Gábor (1998). "The Distribution of the Great Evening Bat Ia io in the Inodmalayan Region" (PDF). Myotis. 36: 197–201.
  6. ^ "Great Evening Bat". China Species Information Service (CSIS). Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2006-05-15. Retrieved 2006-05-10.
  7. ^ C.M. Francis; A. Guillén; M.F. Robinson. "Wildlife of Lao PDR: 1999 status report – Order Chiroptera" (PDF). Wildlife Conservation Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-01-07. Retrieved 2006-05-10.