Life Mammalia Chiroptera Vespertilionidae

• Miniopterus australis Tomes, 1858 India - Hainan, Loyalty Is., NE.Australia. See [maps]

  • Miniopterus australis Tomes, 1858; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858: 125; TL: New Caledonia, Loyalty Is., Lifu (21°S 167.3°E)
  • witkampi
  • tibialis
  • paululus
  • ?Miniopterus paululus Hollister, 1913; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 46: 311; TL: Guimarás I., Philippines

  Distribution includes pusillus, which is split off.

• Miniopterus fraterculus Thomas & Schwann, 1906 South Africa (Cape Prov., Natal, E.Transvaal), S.Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Mozambigue. See [maps]

  • Miniopterus fraterculus Thomas & Schwann, 1906; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1906: 162; TL: Cape Prov., Knysna
• Miniopterus fuscus
• ?Miniopterus inflatus Thomas, 1903 Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, E.Zaire, S.Zaire, Cameroun, Gabon, Mozambique, Burundi. See [maps]

  • Miniopterus inflatus Thomas, 1903; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 12: 634; TL: Cameroun, Efulen
• Miniopterus magnater
• ?Miniopterus medius Thomas & Wroughton, 1909 Thailand, Philippines - New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., Solomons, Loyalty Is.. See [maps]

  • Miniopterus medius Thomas & Wroughton, 1909; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1909: 382; TL: Java, Tji-Trandoei River, Kaliputjang
  • macrocneme
• Miniopterus minor Peters, 1867 Kenya, Tanzania, Zaire, Congo Republic, Madagascar, Sao Tome Is., Comoro Is.. See [maps]

  • Miniopterus minor Peters, 1867; Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin for 1866: 885; TL: Tanzania, coast opposite Zanzibar
• Miniopterus pusillus
• Miniopterus robustior Revilliod, 1914 Loyalty Is.

  • Miniopterus robustior Revilliod, 1914; in Sarasin & Roux, Nova Caledonia, A. Zool. 1: 359; TL: Loyalty Is., Lifu I., Quepenee
• Miniopterus schreibersi (Kuhl, 1819) Morocco, SEU, Caucasus, Iran - China, Japan, Oriental Region, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Australia, Africa (south of Sahara). See [maps] Pitkäsiipiyökkö Schreiber's Bat

  • Vespertilio schreibersii Kuhl, 1819; Ann. Wetterau Ges. Naturk. 4 (2): 185; TL: Kulmbazer Cave (Kolumbacs Cave?), S. Bannat, Hungary (Romania?)
  • inexpectatus
  • italicus
  • oreinii
  • Vespertilio ursinii Kuhl
  • Miniopterus schreibersi baussencis Laurent, 1944; ; TL: Grotte des Fées, Les Baux (near Arles), Provence, France
  • schreibersi pallidus Thomas, 1907; (Caucasus,Asia Minor,Kopet Dag,N.Iran,Palestine); TL: S. shore of Caspian Sea, Iran
  • Miniopterus schreibersi pulcher Harrison, 1956; ; TL: Ser` Amadia, Kurdistan, Iraq
  • schreibersi fulginosus Hodgson, 1835; (India - S.China,Japan); TL: Nepal
  • ?chinensis; (Hopei)
  • japoniae; (Kyushu, Japan)
  • parvipes; (Fukien)
  • arenarius; (Africa)
  • ?Miniopterus natalensis arenarius Heller, 1912; Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (12): 2; TL: Guaso Nyuki, northern Guaso Nyiro River, Kenya
  • breyeri; (Africa)
  • dasythrix; (Africa)
  • majori; (Africa)
  • natalensis; (Africa)
  • scotinus; (Africa)
  • vicinior; (Africa)
  • villiersi; (Australasia)
  • blepotis; (Australasia)
  • eschscholzii; (Australasia)
  • ?fuscus; (Australasia)
  • ?magnater; (Australasia)
  • orianae; (Australasia)
  • yayeyamae; (Australasia)

  Some taxa appears to be split off from this...

• Miniopterus tristis (Waterhouse, 1845) Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bismarck Arch.?, Solomons, New Hebrides. See [maps]

  • tristis (Waterhouse, 1845); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1845: 3; TL: Philippines

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