Pipistrellus rueppellii Rüppell's bat (Vansonia rueppellii), also known as Rüppell's pipistrelle, is a species of vesper bat found in Africa and Asian republics such as Iraq and Israel.

[1] It was formerly classified in the genus Pipistrellus, as its most basal member, but phylogenetic evidence supports it forming the separate genus Vansonia.

[2][3] Senegalese specimens of Vansonia rueppellii can be confidently assigned to V. r. senegalensis, which is distributed from Algeria to Senegal.

After testing the influence of phylogeny, V. rueppellii was found to be basal to the Pipistrellus/Nyctalus clade.

[5][6] It is not unusual to find them in crevices, rocks and buildings of various kinds.