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Zagorodniuk, I., P. Voitko. 2023. The grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) in Volyn: a new step in the expansion in Eastern Europe. Novitates Theriologicae, 16: 103–105. http://doi.org/10.53452/nt1617

title

The grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) in Volyn: a new step in the expansion in Eastern Europe

author(s)

Igor Zagorodniuk (National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0523-133X
Pavlo Voitko (Ukrainian Theriological Society, western branch, Turiisk)

abstract

The paper describes the discovery of a species from the group of sibling species of the superspecies Plecotus auritus (sensu lato), which has been showing a wide expansion in Eastern Europe over the past 100 years. Expansion is facilitated by the species’ pronounced synanthropy, with a particular preference for different types of artificial wintering shelters, which often leads to new finds. The new find is the second for the Volyn region of Ukraine and fills the gap between the known finds in Poland, south-western Belarus (Brest region) and neighbouring regions of Ukraine (Lviv and Rivne oblasts). The new find was recorded on 18.09.2021 in the village of Radovychi, Kovel Raion, in a cellar. The currently known finds of the species in the region are distributed fairly evenly in space and time, indicating a slow and wide expansion, without a significant increase in numbers.

language

Ukrainian, with English summary

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date

online: 30.12.2023; print: 30.12.2023