Tadarida aegyptiaca E. Geoffroy 1818

Tadarida aegyptiaca E. Geoffroy 1818, Descrip. de L'Egypte, Vol. 2: 128.

Type Locality: Egypt, Giza (resticted by Koopman, 1975).

Vernacular Names: Egyptian Free-tailed Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Tadarida aegyptiaca subsp. aegyptiaca E. Geoffroy 1818

Subspecies Tadarida aegyptiaca subsp. bocagei Seabra 1900

Subspecies Tadarida aegyptiaca subsp. sindica Wroughton 1919

Subspecies Tadarida aegyptiaca subsp. thomasi Wroughton 1919

Subspecies Tadarida aegyptiaca subsp. tragatus Dobson 1874

Distribution: South Africa to Nigeria, Algeria, and Egypt to Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman, east to India and Sri Lanka, N to Afganistan.

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

Discussion: aegyptiaca species group. Includes tragata; see Corbet (1978 c) and Freeman (1981). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991) and Bates and Harrison (1997). For African range see Taylor (2000 a).