Plecotus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818. Descrip. de l'Egypte 2: 112.
Vespertilio auritus Linnaeus, 1758
Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Syst. Nat., 10th ed. 1: 32.
Brown Long-eared Bat
Plecotus austriacus (J. Fischer, 1829).
Synopsis Mamm. p. 117.
Gray Long-eared Bat
Plecotus balensis Kruskop & Lavrenchenko, 2000.
Myotis 38: 6.
Bale Long-eared Bat
Plecotus christii Gray, 1838.
Magazine of Zoology and Botany 2(12): 495.
Christie's Long-eared Bat
Plecotus gaisleri Benda, Kiefer, Hanák & Veith, 2004.
Folia Zool. 53(1): 28.
Gaisler's Long-eared Bat
Libya, Cyrenaica, Al Jabal Al Akhdar District, ca. 8 km SW of Massa, central part of the Wadi Al Kuf (Jabal Akhdar Mts)
E Libya, Malta, Pantellaria (Italy), with Mahgrebian populations throughout Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and W Libya
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Not Evaluated (raised from synonymy).
References:
Plecotus gobiensis Dolch, Stubbe, Gärtner, Thiele, Ariunbold, Batsaikhan, Lkhagvasuren, Stubbe & Steinhauser, 2021.
Erforsch. biol. Ress. Mongolei (Halle/Saale) 2021(14): 155.
Gobi Long-eared Bat
Mongolia, Zulganai Oasis
SW Mongolia
CITES - Not Listed (new species). IUCN - Not Evaluated (new species).
References:
Dolch, D., M. Stubbe, B. Gärtner, K. Thiele, J. Ariunbold, N. Batsaikhan, D. Lkhagvasuren, A. Stubbe, and D. Steinhauser. 2021. Phylogenie, Morphologie und Ökologie mongolischer Langohrfleder- mäuse der Gattung Plecotus (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei 2021(14): 123-185. Read article.
Plecotus homochrous Hodgson, 1847.
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 16: .
Himalayan Long-eared Bat
Plecotus kolombatovici Dulic, 1980.
Proc. 5th Internat. Bat Res. Conf., (D. E. Wilson and A. L. Gardner, eds.), Texas Tech Press. p. 159.
Kolombatovic's Long-eared Bat
Plecotus kozlovi Bobrinskoj, 1926.
Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de l'URSS 1926A: .
Kozlov's Long-eared Bat
Plecotus macrobullaris Kuzjakin, 1965.
In Bobrinskij, Kuznetzov and Kusjakin: Isd. Prosveshtshenije. Moskva .
Mountain Long-eared Bat
Plecotus ognevi Kishida, 1927.
Zoological Magazine of Tokyo 39: 418.
Ognev's Long-eared Bat
Plecotus sacrimontis Allen, 1908.
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 52(3): 50.
Japanese Long-eared Bat
Plecotus sardus Mucedda, Kiefer, Pidinchedda & Veith, 2002.
Acta Chiropterol. 4: 123.
Sardinian Long-eared Bat
Plecotus strelkovi Spitzenberger, 2006.
Zool. Scripta 35(3): 207.
Strelkov's Long-eared Bat
Plecotus taivanus Yoshiyuki, 1991.
Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo, ser. A(Zool.) 17: 189.
Taiwan Long-eared Bat
Plecotus teneriffae Barrett-Hamilton, 1907.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7 20: 520.
Canary Long-eared Bat
Plecotus turkmenicus Strelkov, 1988.
Zoologischeskii Zhurnal 67(1): 100.
Turkmenistan Long-eared Bat
Plecotus wardi Thomas, 1911.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser.8, 7:209.
Ward's Long-eared Bat
wardi O. Thomas, 1911:
ariel O. Thomas, 1911.
Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
N Afghanistan, N Pakistan, W India through Nepal; Sichuan (China)
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2020).
auritus species group. Distinct from austriacus; see Spitzenberger et al. (2006). Includes ariel and P. sp. 2 (Spitzenberger et al., 2006); see Fukui et al. (2020). Does not include kozlovi or mordax, which is apparently a synonym of kozlovi; see Spitzenberger et al. (2006).
References:
Fukui, D., V.T. Tu, H.T. Thanh, S. Arai, M. Harada, G. Csorba, and N. T. Son. 2020. First record of the genus Plecotus from Southeast Asia with notes on the taxonomy, karyology and echolocation call of P. homochrous from Vietnam. Acta Chiropterologica 22(1): 57-74. Read abstract.
Spitzenberger, F., P.P. Strelkov, H. Winkler, and E. Haring. 2006. A preliminary revision of the genus Plecotus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) based on genetic and morphological results. Zoologica Scripta 35(3): 187-230. Read abstract.
Thomas, O. 1911. The Duke of Bedford's zoological exploration of Eastern Asia. -XIII. On mammals from the provinces of Kan-su and Sze-chwan, Western China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1911(1): 158-180. Read article.
Thomas, O. 1911. New Asiatic Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8, 7: 205-209. Read article.
auritus species group. Distinct from auritus, austriacus, and teneriffae; see Benda et al. (2004), Mayer et al. (2007), and Ancillotto et al. (2020). Note that populations from the Mahgreb appear to be taxonomically distinct, but have not yet been described as a separate species; see Benda et al. (2004) and Ancillotto et al. (2020).