Tadarida aegyptiaca (E. Geoffroy, 1818) . Descrip, de L'Egypte, 2:128.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to Nigeria, Algeria, and Egypt to Yemen and Oman, east to India and Sri Lanka. Records from Saudi Arabia and Oman are by Jennings (1979).

SYNONYMS: anchietae, bocagei, brunneus, geoffroyi, gossei, sindica, talpinus, thomasi, tongaensis, tragota.

COMMENTS: Includes tragata; see Corbet (1978c:63) and Freeman (1981:165).