Mops Lesson, 1842. Nouv. Tabl. Regn. Anim. Mammifères p. 18
Mops indicus Lesson, 1842 (=Molossus mops de Blainville, 1840)
Allomops J.A. Allen, 1917; Chaerephon Dobson, 1874; Lophomops J.A. Allen, 1917; Nyctinomus E. Geoffroy, 1818; Phillippinopterus Taylor, 1934; Xiphonycteris Dollman, 1911.
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Mops chapini (J. A. Allen, 1917).
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Pale Free-tailed Bat
Includes Chaerephon; see Lamb et al. (2011), Ammerman et al. (2012, 2013), Gregorin and Cirranello (2015), Shi and Rabosky (2015), and Amador et al. (2016). Species in both Mops s.s. and Chaerephon s.s were formerly included in Tadarida, often as subgenera (e.g., Hill, 1983; Corbet and Hill, 1992; Peterson et al., 1995), but were separated from Tadarida by Freeman (1981) and Legendre (1984). Dunlop (1999) provided a key to subgenera and species of Mops s.s. See Taylor (1999) for a critical summary of keys used for African species of Chaerephon, as well as Corbet and Hill (1992; SE Asian species). See also Bouchard (1998), but note that her key apparently includes errors in the first two couplets (M. Happold, pers. comm.). See Patterson and Webala (2012) for keys to the species of both Mops s.s. and Chaerephon s.s in East Africa. Two subgenera were previously recognized within Mops s.s. (Mops and Xiphonycteris) but neither appears to be monophyletic within the larger clade that includes all species of Mops and Chaerephon. Revision of this genus is needed.