Nycteris macrotis Dobson, 1876 . Monogr. Asiat. Chiroptera, p. 80.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra Leone .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Ethiopia, south to Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique; Zanzibar; Madagascar.

SYNONYMS: aethiopica, guineensis, luteola, madagascariensis, major (of J. A. Allen, 1917, not K. Anderson, 1912), oriana, vinsoni (see Koopman, 1975:378, 1992; Cakenberghe and Vree, 1985; and Kock, 1969a:94-97).