Rhinolophus blasii Peters, 1867 . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin for 1866, p. 17.

TYPE LOCALITY: Italy and Yugoslavia .

DISTRIBUTION: Transvaal (South Africa) to S. Zaire; Ethiopia; Somalia; Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Turkey; Yemen; Israel; Jordan; Syria; Iran; Yugoslavia; Albania; Bulgaria; Rumania; Transcaucasia; Turkmenia; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Italy; Greece; Cyprus.

COMMENT: Includes brockmani; see Koopman, 1975, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 154:383. Includes clivosus Blasius, 1857 (not Cretzschmar, 1828); see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951: 120.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003008001.