Vesperus segethii Peters, 1864

Turni, Hendrik & Kock, Dieter, 2008, Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin, Zootaxa 1869 (1), pp. 1-82 : 66

Vesperus segethii Peters, 1864

Peters, W.C.H. (1864) Über einige neue Säugethiere ( Mormops , Macrotus , Vesperus , Molossus, Capromys ), Amphibien ( Platydactylus, Otocryptis, Euprepes, Ungalia, Dromicus, Tropidontus, Xenodon, Hylodes ) und Fische ( Sillago, Sebastes, Channa, Myctophum, Carassius, Barbus, Capoeta, Poecilia, Saurenchelys, Leptocephalus ). Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1864: 383 [381–399].

Valid name: Histiotus montanus (Philippi & Landbeck, 1861)

Holotype or syntype: ZMB 502 , skin and skull (missing); Chile; collected by Segeth.

Comment: Peters (1864) gave no indication of the number of specimens available for his description. In the general catalogue only a single specimen, ZMB 502, was found, annotated in Peters handwriting that it is [an/the] original specimen of the description.