Tadarida insignis Blyth 1862

Tadarida insignis Blyth 1862, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 30: 90.

Type Locality: China, Fukien (= Fujian), Amoy.

Vernacular Names: East Asian Free-tailed Bat.

Synonyms: Tadarida chinensis Westwood 1874; Tadarida cinerea Gubareff 1939; Tadarida coecata Thomas 1922; Tadarida septentrionalis Kishida 1931 .

Distribution: Japan, Taiwan, Korea, S China.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 – Not evaluated; not considered in IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001).

Discussion: teniotis species group. Formerly included in teniotis, but see Yoshiyuki (1989), Yoshiyuki et al. (1989), and Funakoshi and Kunisaki (2000). Does not include latouchei; see Kock (1999 a) and Funakoshi and Kunisaki (2000). Status of coecata from Yunnan (China) is somewhat unclear; see Kock (1999 a), who suggested that it might represent either teniotis or insignis .