Tadarida Rafinesque, 1814 . Precis Som., p. 55.

TYPE SPECIES: Cephalotes teniotis Rafinesque, 1814 .

SYNONYMS: Austronomus, Nyctinomus, Rhizomops.

COMMENTS: Formerly included Chaerephon, Mops, Mormopterus, and Nyctinomops; see Freeman (1981:133). Includes Rhizontops, but see Legendre (1984); see also Owen et al. (1990). Mahoney and Walton (1988) regarded Nyctinomus as the prior name for this genus.