Eptesicus Rafinesque 1820

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 : 452

Eptesicus Rafinesque 1820

Eptesicus Rafinesque 1820 , Ann. Nature: 2.

Type Species: Eptesicus melanops Rafinesque 1820

Synonyms: Adelonycteris H. Allen 1891 ; Amblyotis Kolenati 1858 ; Cateorus Kolenati 1856 ; Cnephaeus Kaup 1829 ; Noctula Bonaparte 1837 ; Nyctiptenus Fitzinger 1870 ; Pachyomus Gray 1866 ; Pareptesicus Bianchi 1917 ; Rhyneptesicus Bianchi 1917 ; Scabrifer G. M. Allen 1908 ; Tuitatus Kishida and Mori 1931 .

Species and subspecies: 23 species with 51 subspecies in 2 subgenera:

Subgenus Eptesicus (Eptesicus) Rafinesque 1820

Subgenus Eptesicus (Rhinopterus) Miller 1906

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) andinus J. A. Allen 1914

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bobrinskoi Kuzyakin 1935

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae Peters 1869

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. bottae Peters 1869

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. anatolicus Felten 1971

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. hingstoni Thomas 1919

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. innesi Lataste 1887

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. ognevi Bobrinskii 1918

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. omanensis Harrison 1976

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) bottae subsp. taftanimontis de Roguin 1988

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) brasiliensis (Desmarest 1819)

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) brasiliensis subsp. brasiliensis Desmarest 1819

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) brasiliensis subsp. argentinus Thomas 1920

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) brasiliensis subsp. melanopterus Jentink 1904

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) brasiliensis subsp. thomasi Davis 1966

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) chiriquinus Thomas 1920

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) diminutus Osgood 1915

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) diminutus subsp. diminutus Osgood 1915

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) diminutus subsp. fidelis Thomas 1920

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) dimissus Thomas 1916

Species Eptesicus (Rhinopterus) floweri de Winton 1901

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) furinalis d'Orbigny 1847

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) furinalis subsp. furinalis d'Orbigny 1847

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) furinalis subsp. carteri Davis 1965

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) furinalis subsp. findleyi Williams 1978

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) furinalis subsp. gaumeri J. A. Allen 1897

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus (Beauvois 1796)

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. fuscus Beauvois 1796

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. bahamensis Miller 1897

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. bernardinus Rhoads 1902

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. dutertreus P. Gervais 1837

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. hispaniolae Miller 1918

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. lynni Shamel 1945

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. miradorensis H. Allen 1866

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. osceola Rhoads 1902

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. pallidus Young 1908

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. peninsulae Thomas 1898

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. petersoni Silva Taboada 1974

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus subsp. wetmorei Jackson 1916

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis Bobrinskii 1926

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis subsp. gobiensis Bobrinskii 1926

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis subsp. centrasiaticus Bobrinskii 1926

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis subsp. kashgaricus Bobrinskii 1926

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) guadeloupensis Genoways and Baker 1975

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) hottentotus A. Smith 1833

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) hottentotus subsp. hottentotus A. Smith 1833

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) hottentotus subsp. bensoni Roberts 1946

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) hottentotus subsp. portavernus Schlitter and Aggundey 1986

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) innoxius Gervais 1841

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) japonensis Imaizumi 1953

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) kobayashii Mori 1928

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) matroka Thomas and Schwann 1905

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) nasutus Dobson 1877

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) nasutus subsp. nasutus Dobson 1877

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) nasutus subsp. batinensis Harrison 1968

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) nasutus subsp. matschiei Thomas 1905

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) nasutus subsp. pellucens Thomas 1906

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) nilssonii Keyserling and Blasius 1839

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) nilssonii subsp. nilssonii Keyserling and Blasius 1839

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) nilssonii subsp. parvus Kishida 1932

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) pachyotis Dobson 1871

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) platyops Thomas 1901

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus (Schreber 1774)

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. serotinus Schreber 1774

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. andersoni Dobson 1871

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. boscai Cabrera 1904

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. horikawai Kishida 1924

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. isabellinus Temminck 1840

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. pachyomus Tomes 1857

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. pallens Miller 1911

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. pashtonus Gaisler 1970

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. shirazensis Dobson 1871

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus subsp. turcomanus Eversmann 1840

Species Eptesicus (Eptesicus) tatei Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951

Discussion: Middle and South American species reviewed by W. B. Davis (1965, 1966). Indomalayan species reviewed by Corbet and Hill (1992). Definition and content discussed by Horacek and Hanák (1985-1986), Hill and Harrison (1987), Menu (1987), Heller and Volleth (1994), and Kearney et al. (2002). Does not include Vespadelus ; see Kitchener et al. (1987), Volleth and Tidemann (1991), and Volleth and Heller (1994). Does not include Arielulus ; see Csorba and Lee (1991). Does not include Neoromicia ; see Volleth et al. (2001) and Kearney et al. (2002). Two subgenera are recognized here, Eptesicus and Rhinopterus . Some authors have recognized several subgenera from among the taxa here included in the subgenus Eptesicus (e.g., Horácek et al. [2000] used Amblyotus and Rhyneptesicus as subgenera), but I prefer to retain a more conservative usage pending a thorough revision of the genus.