Falsistrellus Troughton 1943

Falsistrellus Troughton 1943, Furred Animals of Australia, 1st ed., Sydney: Angus and Robertson: 349.

Type Species: Vespertilio tasmaniensis Gould 1858

Species and subspecies: 5 species:

Species Falsistrellus affinis (Dobson 1871)

Species Falsistrellus mackenziei Kitchener, Caputi, and Jones 1986

Species Falsistrellus mordax (Peters 1866)

Species Falsistrellus petersi (A. Meyer 1899)

Species Falsistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould 1858)

Discussion: Included in Pipistrellus by many authors (e.g., Corbet and Hill, 1992; Hill and Harrison, 1987; Koopman, 1993, 1994), but see Kitchener et al. (1986) and Volleth and Heller (1994). See Kitchener et al. (1986) for diagnosis.