Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774) . Die Säugethiere, 1:174, pl. 62.

TYPE LOCALITY: France .

DISTRIBUTION: S England to Caucasus Mtns south to Morocco and Tunesia (but not Egypt) through Iran and Himalayas to China and Japan; adjacent small islands.

SYNONYMS: brevitarsus, colchicus, creticum, equinus, fudisanus, germanicus, hippocrepis, homodorensis, homorodalmasiensis, insulanus, irani, italicus, korai, kosidanus, martinoi, mikadoi, nippon, norikuranus, obscurus, ogasimanus, proximus, quelpartis, regulus, rubiginosus, typicus, tragatus, ungula, unihastatus.

COMMENTS: Revised by Strelkov et al. (1978).