Khajuria's leaf-nosed bat

Khajuria's leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros durgadasi, also called Durga Das's leaf-nosed bat, is endemic to India and was long considered a subspecies of the ashy roundleaf bat before Topal recognized it as a separate species in 1975. It is known from villages in the Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh, the Kolar district of Karnataka and a roost found in 1998 in Uttar Pradesh, and its range extends over 114,335 square kilometres but it occupies only about 2,000. It has soft brown to reddish-brown fur and echolocates at a very high frequency of 168 to 176 kilohertz. It feeds on beetles, crickets and other small insects and roosts in caves and under granite boulders. The IUCN lists it as Vulnerable, mainly because quarrying and illegal granite mining destroy its habitat.