White-winged Flying Fox

White-winged Flying Fox: White-winged Flying Fox

Conservation status

Endangered (IUCN 3.1)

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Chiroptera

Family: Pteropodidae

Genus: Desmalopex

Species: D. leucopterus

Binomial name

Desmalopex leucopterus
Temminck, 1853

White-winged Flying Fox range

The White-winged Flying Fox (Desmalopex leucopterus) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. Pteropus leucopterus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.

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Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Infraclass: Eutheria · Superorder: Laurasiatheria · Order: Chiroptera

Subfamily Nyctimeninae

Nyctimene
(Tube-nosed fruit bats)
Broad-striped Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. aello) · Common Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. albiventer) · Pallas's Tube-nosed Bat (N. cephalotes) · Dark Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. celaeno) · Mountain Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. certans) · Round-eared Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. cyclotis) · Dragon Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. draconilla) · Keast's Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. keasti) · Island Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. major) · Malaita Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. malaitensis) · Demonic Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. masalai) · Lesser Tube-nosed Bat (N. minutus) · Philippine Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. rabori) · Eastern Tube-nosed Bat (N. robinsoni) · Umboi Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. vizcaccia)

Paranyctimene
Lesser Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (P. raptor) · Steadfast Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (P. tenax)

Subfamily Cynopterinae

Aethalops
(Pygmy fruit bats)
Borneo Fruit Bat (A. aequalis) · Pygmy Fruit Bat (A. alecto)

Alionycteris
Mindanao Pygmy Fruit Bat (A. paucidentata)

Balionycteris
Spotted-winged Fruit Bat (B. maculata)

Chironax
Black-capped Fruit Bat (C. melanocephalus)

Cynopterus
(Dog-faced fruit bats)
Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat (C. brachyotis) · Horsfield's Fruit Bat (C. horsfieldii) · Peters’s Fruit Bat (C. luzoniensis) · Minute Fruit Bat (C. minutus) · Nusatenggara Short-nosed Fruit Bat (C. nusatenggara) · Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat (C. sphinx) · Indonesian Short-nosed Fruit Bat (C. titthaecheilus)

Dyacopterus
(Dayak fruit bats)
Brooks's Dyak Fruit Bat (D. brooksi) · Rickart's Dyak Fruit Bat (D. rickarti) · Dayak Fruit Bat (D. spadiceus)

Haplonycteris
Fischer's Pygmy Fruit Bat (H. fischeri)

Latidens
Salim Ali's Fruit Bat (L. salimalii)

Megaerops
Tailess Fruit Bat (M. ecaudatus) · Javan Tailless Fruit Bat (M. kusnotoi) · Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat (M. niphanae) · White-collared Fruit Bat (M. wetmorei)

Otopteropus
Luzon Fruit Bat (O. cartilagonodus)

Penthetor
Dusky Fruit Bat (P. lucasi)

Ptenochirus
(Musky fruit bats)
Greater Musky Fruit Bat (P. jagori) · Lesser Musky Fruit Bat (P. minor)

Sphaerias
Blanford's Fruit Bat (S. blanfordi)

Thoopterus
Swift Fruit Bat (T. nigrescens)

Subfamily Harpiyonycterinae

Aproteles
Bulmer's Fruit Bat (A. bulmerae)

Dobsonia
(Bare-backed fruit bats)
Andersen's Bare-backed Fruit Bat (D. anderseni) · Beaufort's Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. beauforti) · Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (D. chapmani) · Halmahera Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. crenulata) · Biak Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. emersa) · Sulawesi Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. exoleta) · Solomon's Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. inermis) · Lesser Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. minor) · Moluccan Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. moluccensis) · Panniet Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. pannietensis) · Western Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. peroni) · New Britain Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. praedatrix) · Greenish Naked-backed Fruit Bat (D. viridis)

Harpyionycteris
Sulawesi Harpy Fruit Bat (H. celebensis) · Harpy Fruit Bat (H. whiteheadi)

Subfamily Macroglossinae

Macroglossus
(Long-tongued fruit bats)
Long-tongued Nectar Bat (M. minimus) · Long-tongued Fruit Bat (M. sobrinus)

Melonycteris
Fardoulis' Blossom Bat (M. fardoulisi) · Black-bellied Fruit Bat (M. melanops) · Woodford's Fruit Bat (M. woodfordi)

Notopteris
(Long-tailed fruit bats)
Long-tailed Fruit Bat (N. macdonaldi) · New Caledonia Blossom Bat (N. neocaledonica)

Syconycteris
(Blossom bats)
Common Blossom Bat (S. australis) · Halmahera Blossom Bat (S. carolinae) · Moss-forest Blossom Bat (S. hobbit)

Subfamily Pteropodinae

Acerodon
Sulawesi Flying Fox (A. celebensis) · Talaud Flying Fox (A. humilis) · Giant Golden-crowned Flying Fox (A. jubatus) · Palawan Fruit Bat (A. leucotis) · Sunda Flying Fox (A. mackloti)

Desmalopex
White-winged Flying Fox (D. leucopterus) · Small White-winged Flying Fox (D. microleucopterus)

Eidolon
(Straw-coloured fruit bats)
Madagascan Fruit Bat (E. dupreanum) · Straw-coloured Fruit Bat (E. helvum)

Mirimiri
Fijian Monkey-faced Bat (M. acrodonta)

Neopteryx
Small-toothed Fruit Bat (N. frosti)

Pteralopex
Bougainville Monkey-faced Bat (P. anceps) · Guadalcanal Monkey-faced Bat (P. atrata) · Greater Monkey-faced Bat (P. flanneryi) · Montane Monkey-faced Bat (P. pulchra) · New Georgian Monkey-faced Bat (P. taki)

Pteropus
(Flying foxes)
P. alecto species group: Black Flying Fox (P. alecto)
P. caniceps species group: Ashy-headed Flying Fox (P. caniceps)
P. chrysoproctus species group: Silvery Flying Fox (P. argentatus) · Moluccan Flying Fox (P. chrysoproctus) · Makira Flying Fox (P. cognatus) · Banks Flying Fox (P. fundatus) · Solomons Flying Fox (P. rayneri) · Rennell Flying Fox (P. rennelli)
P. conspicillatus species group: Spectacled Flying Fox (P. conspicillatus) · Ceram Fruit Bat (P. ocularis)
P. livingstonii species group: Aru Flying Fox (P. aruensis) · Kei Flying Fox (P. keyensis) · Livingstone's Fruit Bat (P. livingstonii) · Black-bearded Flying Fox (P. melanopogon)
P. mariannus species group: Okinawa Flying-fox (P. loochoensis) · Mariana Fruit Bat (P. mariannus) · Pelew Flying Fox (P. pelewensis) · Insular Flying Fox (P. tonganus) · Kosrae Flying Fox (P. ualanus) · Yap Flying Fox (P. yapensis)
P. melanotus species group: Black-eared Flying Fox (P. melanotus)
P. molossinus species group: Lombok Flying Fox (P. lombocensis) · Caroline Flying Fox (P. molossinus) · Rodrigues Flying Fox (P. rodricensis)
P. neohibernicus species group: Bismarck Flying Fox (P. neohibernicus)
P. niger species group: Aldabra Flying Fox (P. aldabrensis) · Mauritian flying fox (P. niger) · Madagascan Flying Fox (P. rufus) · Seychelles Fruit Bat (P. seychellensis) · Pemba Flying Fox (P. voeltzkowi)
P. personatus species group: Bismark Masked Flying Fox (P. capistratus) · Masked Flying Fox (P. personatus) · Temminck's Flying Fox (P. temminckii)
P. poliocephalus species group: Big-eared Flying Fox (P. macrotis) · Geelvink Bay Flying Fox (P. pohlei) · Grey-headed Flying Fox (P. poliocephalus)
P. pselaphon species group: Chuuk Flying Fox (P. insularis) · Temotu Flying Fox (P. nitendiensis) · Bonin Flying Fox (P. pselaphon) · Vanikoro Flying Fox (P. tuberculatus) · New Caledonia Flying Fox (P. vetulus)
P. samoensis species group: Vanuatu Flying Fox (P. anetianus) · Samoa Flying Fox (P. samoensis)
P. scapulatus species group: Gilliard's Flying Fox (P. gilliardorum) · Lesser Flying Fox (P. mahaganus) · Little Red Flying Fox (P. scapulatus) · Dwarf Flying Fox (P. woodfordi)
P. subniger species group: Admiralty Flying Fox (P. admiralitatum) · Ryukyu Flying Fox (P. dasymallus) · Nicobar Flying Fox (P. faunulus) · Gray Flying Fox (P. griseus) · Ontong Java Flying Fox (P. howensis) · Small Flying Fox (P. hypomelanus) · Ornate Flying Fox (P. ornatus) · Little Golden-mantled Flying Fox (P. pumilus) · Philippine Gray Flying Fox (P. speciosus)
P. vampyrus species group: Indian Flying Fox (P. giganteus) · Andersen's Flying Fox (P. intermedius) · Lyle's Flying Fox (P. lylei) · Large Flying Fox (P. vampyrus)

Styloctenium
Mindoro Stripe-faced Fruit Bat (S. mindorensis) · Sulawesi Stripe-faced Fruit Bat (S. wallacei)

Subfamily Rousettinae

Eonycteris
(Dawn fruit bats)
Greater Nectar Bat (E. major) · Cave Nectar Bat (E. spelaea) · Philippine Dawn Bat (E. robusta)

Rousettus
(Rousette fruit bats)
Subgenus Boneia: Manado Fruit Bat (R. bidens)
Subgenus Rousettus: Geoffroy's Rousette (R. amplexicaudatus) · Sulawesi Rousette (R. celebensis) · Egyptian Rousette (R. aegyptiacus) · Leschenault's Rousette (R. leschenaulti) · Linduan Rousette (R. linduensis) · Comoro Rousette (R. obliviosus) · Bare-backed Rousette (R. spinalatus)
Subgenus Stenonycteris: Long-haired Rousette (R. lanosus) · Madagascan Rousette (R. madagascariensis)

Subfamily Epomophorinae

Epomophorini

Epomophorus
(Epauleted fruit bats)

Angolan Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. angolensis) · Ansell's Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. anselli) · Peters's Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. crypturus) · Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. gambianus) · Lesser Angolan Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. grandis) · Ethiopian Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. labiatus) · East African Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. minimus) · Minor Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. minor) · Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. wahlbergi)

Epomops
(Epauleted bats)

Buettikofer's Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. buettikoferi) · Dobson's Fruit Bat (E. dobsoni) · Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat (E. franqueti)

Hypsignathus

Hammer-headed Bat (H. monstrosus)

Micropteropus
(Dwarf epauleted bats)

Hayman's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat (M. intermedius) · Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat (M. pusillus)

Nanonycteris

Veldkamp's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat (N. veldkampii)

Myonycterini

Lissonycteris

Angolan Rousette (L. angolensis)

Megaloglossus

Woermann's Bat (M. woermanni)

Myonycteris
(Little collared fruit bats)

São Tomé Collared Fruit Bat (M. brachycephala) · East African Little Collared Fruit Bat (M. relicta) · Little Collared Fruit Bat (M. torquata)

Plerotini

Plerotes

D'Anchieta's Fruit Bat (P. anchietae)

Scotonycterini

Casinycteris

Short-palated Fruit Bat (C. argynnis)

Scotonycteris

Zenker's Fruit Bat (S. zenkeri) · Pohle's Fruit Bat (S. ophiodon)

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White-winged Flying Fox
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Pteropodidae
Genus:	Desmalopex
Species:	D. leucopterus
Binomial name
*Desmalopex leucopterus* Temminck, 1853

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