Eptesicus fuscus (Beauvois, 1796) . Cat. Raisonne Mus. Peale Philadelphia, p. 18.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia .

DISTRIBUTION: S Canada to Colombia and N Brazil; Greater Antilles; Bahamas; Dominica and Barbados (Lesser Antilles); perhaps Alaska.

SYNONYMS: arquatus, bahamensis, bernardinus, carolinensis, cubensis, dutertreus, hispaniolae, lynni, melanops; melanopterus Rehn; miradorensis, osceola, pallidus, peninsulae, pelliceus, petersoni, phaiops, ursinus, wetmorei .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Eptesicus . Closely similar to serotinus with which it may be conspecific. Includes lynni, see Koopman (1989c). See Kurta and Baker (1990, Mammalian Species, 356).