Hesperoptenus Peters 1868

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 : 457

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11327192
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scientific name	Hesperoptenus Peters 1868
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Hesperoptenus Peters 1868 View in CoL

Hesperoptenus Peters 1868 View in CoL , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868: 626.

Type Species: Vesperus (Hesperoptenus) doriae Peters 1868

Species and subspecies: 5 species in 2 subgenera:

Subgenus Hesperoptenus (Hesperoptenus) Peters 1868

Subgenus Hesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) Hill 1976

Species Hesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) blanfordi Dobson 1877

Species Hesperoptenus (Hesperoptenus) doriae Peters 1868

Species Hesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) gaskelli Hill 1983

Species Hesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) tickelli (Blyth 1851)

Species Hesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) tomesi Thomas 1905

Discussion: Revised by Hill (1976); Indomalayan species reviewed by Corbet and Hill (1992) and Bates and Harrison (1997). Two subgenera are recognized, Hesperoptenus and Milithronycteris .