Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus 1758)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 482

Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus 1758)

[Vespertilio] auritus Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 32 .

Type Locality: Sweden.

Vernacular Names: Brown Long-eared Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. auritus Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. begognae de Paz 1994

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. homochrous Hodgson 1847

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. sacrimontis G. M. Allen 1908

Subspecies Plecotus auritus subsp. uenoi Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki 1969

Distribution: Norway, Ireland, and Spain to Sakhalin Isl ( Russia), Korea, Japan, N China, Nepal, India.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed in part by Yoshiyuki (1989, 1991 b), de Paz (1994), Bates and Harrison (1997), Sinha (1999), and Spitzenberger et al. (2001); also see Kiefer and Veith (2001), Kiefer et al. (2002), and Mucedda et al. (2002). Subspecies allocation of populations from northern China, eastern Siberia, and Sakhalin is uncertain. This complex may include more than one species; homochorous may represent a distinct species (Horácek et al., 2000), and it is possible that other forms may also be distinct (see Mucedda et al., 2002).