Tadarida insignis Blyth 1862

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Molossidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 432-451 : 450

Tadarida insignis Blyth 1862

Tadarida insignis Blyth 1862 , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 30: 90.

Type Locality: China, Fukien (= Fujian), Amoy.

Vernacular Names: East Asian Free-tailed Bat.

Synonyms: Tadarida chinensis Westwood 1874 ; Tadarida cinerea Gubareff 1939 ; Tadarida coecata Thomas 1922 ; Tadarida septentrionalis Kishida 1931 .

Distribution: Japan, Taiwan, Korea, S China.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 – Not evaluated; not considered in IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001).

Discussion: teniotis species group. Formerly included in teniotis , but see Yoshiyuki (1989), Yoshiyuki et al. (1989), and Funakoshi and Kunisaki (2000). Does not include latouchei ; see Kock (1999 a) and Funakoshi and Kunisaki (2000). Status of coecata from Yunnan ( China) is somewhat unclear; see Kock (1999 a), who suggested that it might represent either teniotis or insignis .