Rhinolophus blasii Peters 1866

Rhinolophus blasii Peters 1866, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866: 17.

Type Locality: SE Europe; restricted to Italy by Ellerman et al. (1953:59).

Vernacular Names: Blasius's Horseshoe Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Rhinolophus blasii subsp. blasii Peters 1866

Subspecies Rhinolophus blasii subsp. andreinii Senna 1905

Subspecies Rhinolophus blasii subsp. empusa K. Andersen 1904

Subspecies Rhinolophus blasii subsp. meyeroehmi Felten 1977

Distribution: NE South Africa to S Dem. Rep. Congo; Ethiopia; Somalia; Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Turkey; Yemen; Israel; Jordan; Syria; Iran; Serbia and Montenegro; Albania; Bulgaria; Romania; Transcaucasia and Turkmenistan; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Italy; Greece; Cyprus.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: landeri species group. Includes brockmani; see Koopman (1975). Reviewed in part by Paz (1995), Harrison and Bates (1991), Bates and Harrison (1997), Zagorodnyuk (1999), and Horácek et al. (2000).