Phoniscus Miller 1905

Phoniscus Miller 1905, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 18: 229.

Type Species: Phoniscus atrox Miller 1905

Species and subspecies: 4 species:

Species Phoniscus aerosa (Tomes 1858)

Species Phoniscus atrox Miller 1905

Species Phoniscus jagorii (Peters 1866)

Species Phoniscus papuensis (Dobson 1878)

Discussion: Distinct from Kerivoula . Koopman (1982, 1993, 1994) and Ryan (1965) considered Phoniscus to be congeneric with Kerivoula, but see Hill (1965) and Corbet and Hill (1980, 1992). Characters separating these genera were summarized by Corbet and Hill (1992).