Eptesicus nilssoni (Keyserling and Blasius, 1839) . Arch. Naturgesch., 5(1):315.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden .

DISTRIBUTION: W and E Europe to E Siberia and NW China; north beyond Arctic Circle in Scandinavia, south to Bulgaria, Iraq, the Elburz Mtns (N Iran), The Pamirs and W China (not Tibet); Nepal; Honshu, Hokkaido (Japan); Sakhalin Isl (Russia).

SYNONYMS: atratus, centralasiaticus, gobiensis, japonensis, kashgaricus, parvus, propinquus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Eptesicus . Includes propinquus; see W. B. Davis (1965:230). Includes japonensis; see Corbet (1978c:57), but also see Yoshiyuki (1989). Includes gobiensis; see Corbet (1978c); but see also Strelkov (1986), who discussed status, relations, and distribution, and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Revised by Wallin (1969).