Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Arielulus drungicus resulted in 1 species-level match:

Arielulus Hill & Harrison, 1987. Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist 52: 250.

Vespertilio circumdatus Temminck, 1840

Arielulus drungicus (Wang, 1982).
Zool. Res. 3 (Suppl.): 345.
Dulong Sprite

Pipistrellus circumdatus drungicus

China, northwestern Yunnan Province, Drung valley, Dilan

N Vietnam, S China, Nepal

CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Least Concern under Arielulus circumdatus (2019).

Previously included in circumdatus, but apparently distinct; see Zhukova et al. (2026)

References:

Wang, Y. 1982. New subspecies of the pipistrels (Chiroptera, Mammalian) from Yunnan, China. Zoological Research 3(Suppl.): 343-348. Read article.

Zhukova, S.S., A.P. Yuzefovich, S.V. Kruskop, and N.T. Son. 2026. Black-gilded pipistrelles (Arielulus s.str., Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) in Eastern Indochina. Mammal Study 51(1): 3-14. Read article.