Genus Macronycteris Gray, 1866

In their very recently published study of the genus Hipposideros, Foley et al. (2017) found that the Cyt- b sequences for Hipposideros commersoni E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1813, H. cryptovalorona Goodman et al., 2016, H. gigas (Wagner, 1845) and H. vittatus (Peters, 1852) are quite different from those of the other representatives of this genus, and therefore, they resurrected the genus Macronycteris Gray, 1866 . This division is also supported by the deviant karyotype, which in Hipposideros counts 32 chromosomes and 52 in species assigned to Macronycteris .