It is hard to guess what a White-winged serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-winged serotine (Eptesicus tenuipinnis) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The White-winged serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Eptesicus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.7 cm (0′ 2″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The white-winged serotine (Neoromicia tenuipinnis) is a species of vesper bat.It can be found in the following countries: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.It is found in these habitats: subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a White-winged serotine
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Southern yellow bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Java pipistrelle with a weight of 4 grams
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle with a weight of 15 grams
- Bronze tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Natterer’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Flores woolly bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Cape serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Northern bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-winged serotine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eptesicus tenuipinnis:
- Narrow-nosed planigale bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Zulu serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Climbing shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Brown pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Savi’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Ridley’s bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a White-winged serotine
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-winged serotine:
- Lesser horseshoe bat with a size of 3.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine with a size of 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Woermann’s bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Desert pocket mouse with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Common pipistrelle with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat with a size of 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)