THE FINDS OF A RARE SPECIES OF PARTI-COLOURED BAT VESPERTILIO MURINUS LINNAEUS, 1758 (CHIROPTERA: VESPERTILIDAE) IN THE ULYANOVSK REGION
N July 2006, 2021 on the territory of the Ulyanovsk region, brood colonies of a rare species of bats, the particoloured bat Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), have been discovered for the first time. The species is widespread in Europe, Anterior and Central Asia, up to Mongolia, the Far East and Northeast China. It is found in various types of landscape, including in anthropogenically modified territories. The discovery of new habitat points of the Vespertilio murinus in the Ulyanovsk region makes 80 it possible to predict the abundance and determine the further status of the species.