Plecotus austriacus (Fischer, 1829) . Synopsis Mamm., p. 117.

TYPE LOCALITY: Austria, Vienna .

DISTRIBUTION: England, Spain, and Senegal to Mongolia and W China; Canary (Spain) and Cape Verde Isis.

SYNONYMS: ariel, brevipes, christiei, hispanicus, kirschbaumii, kolombatovici, kozlovi, macrobullaris, meridionalis, mordax, wardi .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Plecotus . Included in auritus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:181); but see Corbet (1978c:61) who included teneriffae, but see Ibânez and Fernândez (1985).