Abstract

• The wing morphology of black-bearded tomb bat, Taphozous melanopogon (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) collected from the Chaedawyar Monastery cave, Madaya Township. The study of wing morphology, echolocation frequency of T. melanopogon analyzed during June 2018 to February 2019 involved 20 males and 20 females of T. melanopogon. The aim of this study was to examine whether wing morphology of bat have relationship with feeding habits. The wing parameters were measured onto one centimeter square graph paper in the field. Evaluation was focused on three major parameters; wing loading (WL), aspect ratio (A) and wing tip shape index (I) between males and females by using t-test. The values of wing loading (t = 0.881, df = 38, p = 0.219), aspect ratio (t = -196, df = 38, p = 0.478) and wing tip shape index (t =0 .843, df = 38, p = 0.072) were calculated. Echolocation frequency of T. melanopogon revealed that the peak frequency was 29.85 kHz. The study results concluded that T melanopogon wing morphology were not significant differences in nonreproductive female and male on intraspecific.