Nycticeius schlieffeni (Peters, 1859) . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1859:223.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Cairo .

DISTRIBUTION: SW Arabia; Egypt to Somalia, Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia; Mauritania and Ghana to Sudan and Tanzania.

SYNONYMS: adovanus, africanus, albiventer, australis, bedouin, cinnamomeus, fitzsimonsi, minimus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Nycticeinops . Includes cinnamomeus; see Koopman (1975:412-413).