Eptesicus nilssoni (Keyserling and Blasius, 1839)

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 202

Eptesicus nilssoni (Keyserling and Blasius, 1839) . Arch. Naturgesch., 5(1):315.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden .

DISTRIBUTION: W and E Europe to E Siberia and NW China; north beyond Arctic Circle in Scandinavia, south to Bulgaria, Iraq, the Elburz Mtns (N Iran), The Pamirs and W China (not Tibet); Nepal; Honshu, Hokkaido ( Japan); Sakhalin Isl ( Russia).

SYNONYMS: atratus , centralasiaticus, gobiensis , japonensis , kashgaricus, parvus , propinquus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Eptesicus . Includes propinquus; see W. B. Davis (1965:230). Includes japonensis ; see Corbet (1978c:57), but also see Yoshiyuki (1989). Includes gobiensis ; see Corbet (1978c); but see also Strelkov (1986), who discussed status, relations, and distribution, and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Revised by Wallin (1969).