Plecotus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818

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 : 481

Plecotus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818

Plecotus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818 , Descrip. de L'Egypte, Vol. 2: 112.

Type Species: Vespertilio auritus Linnaeus 1758

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Species and subspecies: 8 species with 11 subspecies:

Species Plecotus alpinus Kiefer and Veith 2001

Species Plecotus auritus ( Linnaeus 1758)

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. auritus Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. begognae de Paz 1994

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. homochrous Hodgson 1847

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. sacrimontis G. M. Allen 1908

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. uenoi Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki 1969

Species Plecotus austriacus J. Fischer 1829

Subspecies Plecotus austriacus subsp. austriacus J. Fischer 1829

Subspecies Plecotus austriacus subsp. ariel Thomas 1911

Subspecies Plecotus austriacus subsp. christii Gray 1838

Subspecies Plecotus austriacus subsp. macrobullaris Kuzyakin 1965

Subspecies Plecotus austriacus subsp. turkmenicus Strelkov 1988

Subspecies Plecotus austriacus subsp. wardi Thomas 1911

Species Plecotus balensis Kruskop and Lavrenchenko 2000

Species Plecotus kolombatovici Dulic 1980

Species Plecotus sardus Mucedda, Kiefer, Pidinchedda, and Veith 2002

Species Plecotus taivanus Yoshiyuki 1991

Species Plecotus teneriffae Barrett-Hamilton 1907

Discussion: Does not include Idionycteris or Corynorhinus ; see Williams et al. (1970), Tumlinson and Douglas (1992), Frost and Timm (1993), Bogdanowicz et al. (1998), and Hoofer and Van Den Bussche (2001). See C. Jones (1977) for a key to species of Plecotus and Corynorhinus , but note that new species have been described since that publication.