Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774) . Die Säugethiere, 1:167.

TYPE LOCALITY: France .

DISTRIBUTION: British Isles, S Scandinavia, and W Europe to the Volga and Caucasus; Morocco; Asia Minor and Israel to Kashmir, Kazakhstan, and Sinkiang (China). Perhaps Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

SYNONYMS: aladdin, bactrianus, brachyotos, flavescens, genei, griseus, limbatus, macropterus, mediterraneus, melanopterus, minutissimus, murinus, nigricans, pusillus, pygmaeus, stenotus, typus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pipistrellus . Includes aladdin; see Corbet (1978c:53).