Lasiurus Gray, 1831 . Zool. Mise., 1:38.

TYPE SPECIES: Vespertilio borealis Müller, 1776 .

SYNONYMS: Dasypterus; Nycteris Borkhausen, 1797 (not Cuvier and Geoffroy, 1795).

COMMENTS: Treated under the name Nycteris by Hall (1981:219). In Opinion 111 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1929b), Lasiurus was adopted, rather than Nycteris . Includes Dasypterus; see Hall and Jones (1961). A key to this genus was presented by Shump and Shump (1982a).