It is hard to guess what a White-winged serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-winged serotine (Neoromicia tenuipinnis) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The White-winged serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Neoromicia). 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:
- Eastern red bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Northern cave bat with 1 babies per litter
- Common bent-wing bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Asian particolored bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Southern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Northern yellow bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Myotis bocagei with a weight of 7 grams
- Hoary bat with a weight of 27 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 Neoromicia tenuipinnis:
- Abo bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Montane myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Little big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Peters’s musk shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Red myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Sahelian tiny shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Big-eared horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Saharan shrew bringing 6 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″)
- Desert pocket mouse with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Woermann’s bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mauritanian shrew with a size of 3 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat with a size of 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rufous trident bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Proboscis bat with a size of 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine with a size of 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)