Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie, 1901. Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, p. 225. TYPE LOCALITY: Rumania, Bucharest. DISTRIBUTION: Portugal, Spain, France, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Transcaucasia; Morocco to Cyrenaica (Libya); Mediterranean islands, Iran, Afghanistan, Asia Minor, Israel, Egypt. SYNONYMS: carpentanus, tunetae. COMMENTS: Revised by DeBlase (1972).Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 167, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735306