Eptesicus tenuipinnis (Peters, 1872) . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872:263.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Guinea " .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Kenya, south to Angola and Zaire.

SYNONYMS: ater, bicolor .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Neoromicia . E. bicolor was tentatively included here by Hayman and Hill (1971:43), but may be an older name for Pipistrellus anchietai; see Koopman (1975:404).