Mormopterus Peters, 1865 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865:258.

TYPE SPECIES: Nyctinomus { Mormopterus) jugularis Peters, 1865 .

SYNONYMS: Micronomus, Platymops, Sauromys .

COMMENTS: Formerly included in Tadarida; see Koopman (1975:419-421); but also see Freeman (1981: 133, 160), who included Sauromys and Platymops as subgenera, and also Micronomus .