Eptesicus serotinus Schreber, 1774 . Die Säugethiere, 1:167.

TYPE LOCALITY: France .

DISTRIBUTION: W Europe through S Asiatic Russia to Himalayas, Thailand and China, north to Korea; Taiwan; S England; N Africa; most islands in Mediterranean; perhaps Subsaharan Africa.

SYNONYMS: albescens, andersoni, boscai, brachydigitatis, horikawai, incisivus, insularis, intermedius, isabellinus, meridionalis, mirza, okenii, pachyomus, pollens, pashtonus, rufescens, shiraziensis, sodalis, transylvanicus, turcomanicus, typus, wiedii.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Eptesicus . Includes sodalis; see Corbet (1978c:57). Includes horikawai; see Jones (1975:189). Revised by Gaisler (1970). See comments under fuscus and platyops .