Vespertilionidae

Vespertilionidae Afropipistrellus Thorn, Kock & Cuisin, 2007: 75. Subgenus of Pipistrellus. Type species: Vesperugo grandidieri Dobson, 1876. Barbastella barbastellus guanchae Trujillo, Ibáñez & Juste, 2002: 544. “ Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife, La Guancha, Barranco de La Cantera, 300 m a.s.l.”. Glauconycteris curryae Eger & Schlitter, 2001: 2. “ Cameroon: 10 km W Bipindi (03o 05' N, 10 o 25 ' E), approximately 300 m above sea level”. Justified emendation of Glauconycteris curryi Eger & Schlitter 2001, by Eger (2001). [DD] Remarks: The authors did not explain how the specific name was formed but as there is no 'y' in Latin, the original name “ curryi ” must have been formed directly from the modern personal name and as it is the name of a woman (Noreen Curry), should be corrected to “ curryae ” (see Article 31.1.2; ICZN 1999). Miniopterus gleni Peterson, Eger, & Mitchell, 1995: 128. “dans une grotte marine entre Sardrano et Saint- Augustin, à 20 k au Sud de Tuléar” [Madagascar]. [LC] Miniopterus minor occidentalis Juste & Ibáñez, 1992: 362. “Meya-Nzouari Cave, Koilou (3 ° 53 'S, 14 ° 31 'E), Republic of Congo ”. Miniopterus petersoni Goodman, Bradman, Maminirina, Ryan, Christidis & Appleton, 2008: 201. “ Madagascar: Province de Toliara, Cascade de Manantantely, 5.2 km NW of Tolagnaro, 24 ° 59.343 'S, 46 º 55.370 'E, 65m ”. [DD] Miniopterus sororculus Goodman, Ryan, Maminirina, Fahr, Christidis & Appleton, 2007: 1219. “ Madagascar: Province de Fianarantsoa, 3 km south of Ambatofinandrahana, in unnamed cave, 20 º 34.321 'S, 46 º 48.530 'E, 1,450 m ”. [LC] Myotis dieteri Happold, 2005: 11. “Grotte du Viaduc à Loudima, Republic of Congo (04° 15 ’S, 13 °00’E)”. [DD] Pipistrellus africanus meesteri Kock, 2001: 129. New name for Pipistrellus nanus australis Roberts, 1913: 67, Port St. Johns, South Africa (preoccupied by Pipistrellus hesperus australis Miller, 1897, a North American bat). Remarks: As a result of taxonomic confusion at the generic and specific levels, this subspecies has been variously known as Pipistrellus africanus meesteri, Pipistrellus nanus meesteri, and Neoromicia nanus meesteri (see Bronner et al. 2003). The epithet africanus predates nanus, but Opinion 2120 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) (Anonymous 2005) argued to retain nanus on the grounds of nomenclatural stability (based on Happold’s (2003) original application, Case 3240). Neoromicia nanus is retained by Simmons (2005), but see Lausen & Barclay (2005). Pipistrellus hanaki Hulva & Benda, 2004: 207. “ Libya, Cyrenaica, upper part of the Wadi Al Kuf (the Jabal Akhdar Mts.), ca. 5 km southwest of Al Bayda, Al Jabal Al Akhdar Dist., 32 ° 44 ’N, 21 ° 41 ’E; ca. 495 m a.s.l.”. [DD] Pipistrellus raceyi Bates, Ratrimomanarivo, Harrison & Goodman, 2006: 301. “Kianjavato, Province de Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, 21 ° 22.84 ’S, 47 ° 51.96 ’E, 75 m a.s.l.”. [DD] Plecotus balensis Kruskop & Lavrenchenko, 2000: 6. “ Harenna Forest, Bale Mountains National Park, southern Ethiopia, 06° 45 'N, 39 ° 44 'E, 2760 m ”. [DD] Plecotus teneriffae gaisleri Benda, Kiefer, Hanák & Veith, 2004: 28. “Wadi al Kuf, SW Massah, Cyrenaica, Libya ”. Scotophilus marovaza Goodman, Ratrimomanarivo & Randrianandrianina, 2006: 23. “ Madagascar, Province de Mahajanga, Marovaza, 14 ° 56 ’S, 47 ° 16 ’E, 5 m above sea level”. [LC] Scotophilus tandrefana Goodman, Jenkins & Ratrimomanarivo, 2005: 875. “ Madagascar, Province de Mahajanga, just outside the limit of the Parc National de Bemaraha, 1.8 km SE from Bekopaka and 0.6 km NE from Andadoany, 19 °08.454’S, 44 ° 48.732 ’E, about 50 m above sea-level”. [DD]Published as part of Hoffmann, Michael, Grubb, Peter, Groves, Colin P., Hutterer, Rainer, Straeten, Erik Van Der, Simmons, Nancy & Bergmans, Wim, 2009, A synthesis of African and western Indian Ocean Island mammal taxa (Class: Mammalia) described between 1988 and 2008: an update to Allen (1939) and Ansell (1989), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 2205 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18972