Nycteris macrotis Dobson, 1876 . Monogr. Asiat. Chiroptera, p. 80.
TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra Leone .
DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Ethiopia, south to Zimbabwe and Malawi; Zanzibar.
COMMENT: Includes aethiopica, luteola, and major (of J. A. Allen, 1917, not K. Andersen, 1912); see Koopman, 1975, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 154:378.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301405005001008001 as N. macrotis .
5301405005001001001 as N. aethiopica .