First record of Pipistrellus kuhlii (Chiroptera) from Slovakia

Ceľuch, Martin; Ševčík, Martin

doi:10.2478/s11756-006-0111-z

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“…In the case of Pipistrellus kuhlii , scarce data were published from various parts of its European range (Strelkov et al. , Bauer , Paunović & Marinković , Cel'uch & Ševčík , Sachanowicz et al. , Popczyk et al.…”

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“…Two Mediterranean bat species, Pipistrellus kuhlii and Hypsugo savii, expanded from their original core area of distribution in the thermo-Mediterranean zone of southern Europe towards the north. In the case of Pipistrellus kuhlii, scarce data were published from various parts of its European range (Strelkov et al 1985, Bauer 1996, Paunović & Marinković 1998, Cel'uch & Ševčík 2006, Sachanowicz et al 2006b, Popczyk et al 2008, Chişamera & Murariu 2009, Wawrocka et al 2012. A range expansion of Hypsugo savii was suggested to have occurred already in the early 1990s, based on records from north-eastern Austria (Spitzenberger 1997).…”

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Status of Savi's pipistrelle Hypsugo savii (Chiroptera) and range expansion in Central and south‐eastern Europe: a review

Uhrin

Hüttmeir²,

Kipson

et al. 2015

Mammal Review

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Savi's pipistrelle Hypsugo savii is a Mediterranean faunal element among the bats; it occurs in southern Europe, the Canary Islands, north‐western Africa, most of the Mediterranean islands, in the northern part of the Middle East, in the Crimea, Caucasus, West Turkestan, and northern Afghanistan. The northern margin of its geographical range in Europe reaches the Pyrenees, Massif Central, southern Alps, Dalmatia, Balkan Mountains and southern Crimea, like that of other similar biogeographical elements. Since the 1990s, Hypsugo savii started to be found in inland areas of south‐eastern Europe and in Central Europe as far northwards as in central Bohemia and southern Poland. These numerous new occurrences seem to be either 1) connected to environmental changes caused by the current climate change; 2) evidence of an intrinsic expansion process powered by the species' synanthropic tendency, including passive human‐mediated transport; or 3) a reflection of the increase in field survey efforts. Distributional data on Hypsugo savii from central and south‐eastern parts of Europe were gathered and evaluated. We provide a detailed review of all records available by the end of 2013. The assessment of temporal distribution of the data clearly shows an ongoing and relatively fast expansion of Hypsugo savii from southern to Central Europe, which represents a shift of almost 800 km northwards in the last 20–25 years. Most of the records (65%) originate from urban habitats. This suggests that the synanthropic habits of the species are the most plausible explanation for the northwards shift of the range limits of Hypsugo savii.

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Section: General Synopsismentioning

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Section: General Synopsismentioning

confidence: 99%

Status of Savi's pipistrelle Hypsugo savii (Chiroptera) and range expansion in Central and south‐eastern Europe: a review

Uhrin

Hüttmeir²,

Kipson

et al. 2015

Mammal Review

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“…Sachteleben 1991;Smit-Viergutz & Simon 2000;Nusová et al 2019). Apart from very recent records of rapidly expanding P. kuhlii that is obviously associated with manmade structures in the region (Ceľuch & Ševčík 2006;Sachanowicz et al 2006;Danko 2007;Maxinová et al 2016;Michálek et al 2017), urban environment is characteristic mainly for P. pipistrellus that is also significantly more frequent species than P. pygmaeus in large urban agglomeration of central Europe (Jahelková et al 2008;Hanák et al 2009). However, observation of transient common roosting of the common and soprano pipistrelles in multi-storey prefab house in central Slovakia during spring migration period ) also suggests possibility for autumn co-occurrence.…”

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Go to the city: urban invasions of four pipistrelle bat species in eastern Slovakia

Nusová

Uhrin

Kaňuch

2019

European Journal of Ecology

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Until now, late summer or autumn invasions into inhabited building have been regarded as phenomenon typical for the common pipistrelle, pipistrellus pipistrellus, exclusively. During the investigation of this phenomenon in the city of Košice (eastern Slovakia), we discovered that it was not always entirely specific for this species. During the period 2016–2018, we recorded 3 events out of 35 invasions, where small groups of common pipistrelles that invaded into inhabited buildings were also accompanied by individuals of two con-generic bat species, pipistrellus pygmaeus and pipistrellus kuhlii. Cryptic species p. pipistrellus and p. pygmaeus were determined by genetic test. In addition, in 2019, we recorded the first winter occurrence of another pipistrelle species, pipistrellus nathusii, in this urban environment. We conclude that areas of frequent invasive behaviour of p. pipistrellus may be sometimes associated with concomitant occurrence of other related species that share common thermal or foraging niche and such behaviour could be evidence of their urbanisation tendencies.

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“…Kondratenko 1999;Gavris & Kotserzhinska 2002;Lada 2010;Smirnov et al 2012) and Central Europe (e.g. Ceľuch & Ševčik, 2006;Popczyk et al 2008;Michálek et al 2017), but published data about the ecology of this taxon are available in limited sources (Strelkov et al, 1985;Rakhmatullina 2005;Smirnov & Vehnik 2011;Bilushenko 2013).…”

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Wintering of an urban bat (Pipistrellus kuhlii lepidus) in recently occupied areas

Hukov¹,

Timofieieva

Prylutska³

et al. 2020

EuroJEcol

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Urbanization is one of the main drivers of ecological change in the modern world. In most cases, species diversity in urban landscapes is lower than in natural ones; however, some groups of animals are able to exploit and benefit from urban habitat. Pipistrellus kuhlii s.l. is (P. k. lepidus according to recent taxonomic review), a common European urban bat, whose range has expanded on a wide scale in the last 40 years. Thought to originate in Central Asia, this species has extended its range throughout Eastern and Central and Europe (a distance of more than 2,500 km2) in part by using human settlements as a habitat. This study examines the ecological features of P. k. lepidus in wintertime in the Eastern part of Ukraine, where this species has been living for 20 years. Thirty-nine winter records of P. k. lepidus(1,301 individuals totally) were selected from the database of the Bat Rehabilitation Center of Feldman Ecopark, 19 of which were groups from 2 to 641 individuals. Pipistrellus k. lepidus was found in various types of structures, but most often in administrative buildings (school buildings - 69%). Records were usually obtained during renovation works (85%), and the roosting sites were cavities between the wooden planks of window frames and a wall (75%). The records were obtained in 26 settlements, from a village (0,293 kmand 252 people) to the biggest cities in the country (Kharkiv and Odessa). The sex ratio in winter aggregation in adults varied from 47% to 61% of females and for this-year individuals from 48% to 58%, respectively. The body mass at the end of the hibernation period (February/March) decreases for 17–20% compared to the beginning of the period (December). Adult females have bigger body size (body mass and forearm length) (p-value < 0.05). Our results showed that P. k. lepidus is capable of forming homogeneous, sedentary populations in all types of settlements in Ukraine for these twenty years. However, this choice of habitat means that the species faces a high mortality risk from humans during building renovation and insulation works or pest control actions.

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First record of Pipistrellus kuhlii (Chiroptera) from Slovakia

Cited by 14 publications

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Status of Savi's pipistrelle Hypsugo savii (Chiroptera) and range expansion in Central and south‐eastern Europe: a review

Status of Savi's pipistrelle Hypsugo savii (Chiroptera) and range expansion in Central and south‐eastern Europe: a review

Go to the city: urban invasions of four pipistrelle bat species in eastern Slovakia

Wintering of an urban bat (Pipistrellus kuhlii lepidus) in recently occupied areas

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