Eptesicus Rafinesque 1820
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus

description: 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.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, pp. 451-529 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 452, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519