Painted bat

The painted bat (Kerivoula picta) or painted wooly bat is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is also known as "butterfly bat" (projapoti badur), "rongin chamchika" (coloured bat) or "komola-badami chamchika" (orange-brown bat) in Bengali.

Painted bat
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Kerivoula
Species:
K. picta
Binomial name
Kerivoula picta
(Pallas, 1767)
Species distribution (in southeast Asia) based on data from the IUCN.
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