Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae Peters 1869

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 453

Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae Peters 1869

Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae Peters 1869 , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869: 406.

Type Locality: Yemen.

Vernacular Names: Botta's Serotine.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. bottae Peters 1869

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. anatolicus Felten 1971

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. hingstoni Thomas 1919

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. innesi Lataste 1887

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. ognevi Bobrinskii 1918

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. omanensis Harrison 1976

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. taftanimontis de Roguin 1988

Distribution: Rhodes ( Greece), Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Israel, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, east to Mongolia, NW China, and Pakistan.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Eptesicus . Does not include sodalis ; see Gaisler (1970). See also DeBlase (1971) for discussion of synonyms. Revised by Nader and Kock (1990). Reviewed in part by Bates and Harrison (1997).