Myotis auriculas Baker and Stains, 1955 . Univ. Kansas Pubi. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9:83.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Tamaulipas, Sierra de Tamaulipas, 10 mi. (16 km) W, 2 mi. (3 km) S Piedra, 1,200 ft. (366 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: Arizona and New Mexico (USA) to Jalisco and Veracruz (Mexico); Guatemala.

SYNONYMS: apache.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Myotis . Listed as a subspecies of evotis by Hall and Kelson (1959:169); but also see Genoways and Jones (19696) and Hall (1981:205). See Warner (1982, Mammalian Species, 191).