Lyroderma Peters, 1872. Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1872: 195
Megaderma lyra E. Geoffroy, 1810
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Lyroderma lyra (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810).
Ann. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris 15: 190.
Greater False Vampire Bat
Megaderma lyra
lyra É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810:
carnatica Elliot, 1839;
caurina K. Andersen & Wroughton, 1907;
schistacea Hodgson, 1847;
spectrum Wagner, 1844.
sinense K. Andersen & Wroughton, 1907
.India, Madras
Afghanistan to S China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam; south to Sri Lanka and W Malaysia; Bangladesh
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2020).
Reviewed in part by Bates et al. (1994) and Bates and Harrison (1997). For a discussion of species and subspecies records in Afghanistan see Benda and Gaisler (2015). Lyroderma is neuter as the ending "derma" is a third declension Greek neuter noun. Thus, the correct spelling of the subspecies name is sinense (neuter), not sinensis (masculine or feminine).
References:
Bates, P.J.J., and D.L. Harrison. 1997. Bats of the Indian Subcontinent. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks: 258. Not available online.
Bates, P.J.J., D.L. Harrison, and M. Mundi. 1994. The bats of western India revisited. Part 2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 91: 224-240. Not available online.
Benda, P., and J. Gaisler. 2015. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 12. Bat fauna of Afghanistan: revision of distribution and taxonomy. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 79: 267–458. Read article.
Previously included in Megaderma, but distinct; see Hand (1985), Eick et al. (2005), Kaňuch et al. (2015), Shi and Rabosky (2015), Soisook et al. (2015), Benda and Gaisler (2015), and Amador et al. (2016). But see also Griffiths et al. (1992).