The Lesser Bamboo Bat is a species of vesper bat

Vesper bat

Vesper bats , also known as Evening bats or Common bats, are the largest and best-known family of bats. They belong to the suborder Microchiroptera . There are over three hundred species distributed all over the world, on every continent except Antarctica...

 in the Vespertilionidae family. It is found in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

, China

China

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, India

India

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, Indonesia

Indonesia

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, Malaysia, Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

 and the Philippines

Philippines

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The bat, the size of a bumble bee, is among the smallest mammals on earth, measuring about 40 millimetres (1.6 in) in length with a wingspan of 150 millimetres (5.9 in). It weighs approximately 1.5 gram (1.350013500135E-07 gr).

This species lives in the hollow of bamboo shoot

Bamboo shoot

Bamboo shoots or bamboo sprouts are the edible shoots of many bamboo species including Bambusa vulgaris and Phyllostachys edulis. They are used in numerous Asian dishes and broths...

s and pups (presumably one) are fed by their mother. The entrance hole to the bamboo tunnel is too restrictive for most predators, such as snake

Snake

Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...

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Subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

are:

• Tylonycteris pachypus aurex
• Tylonycteris pachypus bhaktii
• Tylonycteris pachypus fulvidus
• Tylonycteris pachypus meyeri
• Tylonycteris pachypus pachypus