Rhinolophus hipposideros (Bechstein, 1800) . In Pennant, Allgemeine Ueber. Vierfuss. Thiere, 2:629.

TYPE LOCALITY: France .

DISTRIBUTION: Ireland, Iberia and Morocco through S Europe and N Africa to Kirghizia and Kashmir; Arabia; Sudan; Ethiopia.

SYNONYMS: anomalus, bihastatus, bifer, escalerae, helvetica, intermedius, kashyiriensis, majori, midas, minimus, minutus, moravicus, pallidus, phasma, trogophilus, typus, vespa.

COMMENTS: Revised by Felten et al. (1977).