Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Myotis badius resulted in 1 species-level match:

Myotis Kaup, 1829. Skizz. Entwickel.-Gesch. Nat. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt 1: 106.

Vespertilio myotis Borkhausen, 1797

Myotis badius Tiunov, Kruskop & Jiang, 2011.
Acta Chiropt. 13(2): 272.
Chestnut Myotis

China, Yunnan Province, Shuanghe Town, near Shicaohe village, Dashi Cave

China (Yunnan Province)

CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Data Deficient (2018).

Formerly included in alticraniatus, but apparently distinct (see Tiunov et al. 2025); but see Ruedi et al. (2021).

References:

Ruedi, M., U. Saikia, A. Thabah, T. Görföl, and G. Csorba. 2021. Molecular and morphological revision of small Myotinae from the Himalayas shed new light on the poorly known genus Submyotodon (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Mammalian Biology 101: 465-480. Read article.

Tiunov, M.P., S. Liu, J. Feng, P. Soisook, and T. Jiang. 2025. A new species of Myotis from China with notes on the siligorensis species group (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). ZooKeys 1258: 333-356. Read article.

Tiunov, M.P., S.V Kruskop, and Jiang Feng. 2011. A new mouse-eared bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from South China. Acta Chiropterologica 13(2): 271-278. Read abstract.