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--> FAMILY Vespertilionidae
--> SUBFAMILY Vespertilioninae
--> TRIBE Plecotini
GENUS Plecotus
Author: | E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818. | Citation: | Descrip. de L'Egypte, 2: 112. | Type Species: | Vespertilio auritus Linnaeus, 1758. | Comments: | 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. |
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