Promops Gervais, 1856 . In Comte de Castelnau, Exped. Partes Cen. Am. Sud., Zool.(Sec. 7), Vol 1, pt. 2(Mammifères):58.

TYPE SPECIES: Promops ursinus Gervais, 1856 (= Molossus nasutus Spix, 1823).