Macroglossus minimus (E. Geoffroy, 1810). Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 15:97. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java. DISTRIBUTION: Thailand to Philippines, New Guinea, Bismarck Arch. (Papua New Guinea), Solomon Isis, and N Australia. SYNONYMS: fructivorus, horsfieldi, kiodotes, lagochilus, meyeri, microtus, nanus, pygmaeus, rostratus. COMMENTS: Includes lagochilus; see Hill (1983: 134-137). Includes fructivorus; see Heaney and Rabor (1982).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 154, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735306